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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 300 mm high, solitary, terminal, from thick woody rootstock, closely leafy. Leaves: blade of basal leaves narrowly to broadly obovate, up to 90 x 15 mm, upper surface glandular-pubescent and cobwebby, lower surface greyish white-woolly; blade of stem leaves similar but smaller, ± imbricate. Heads disciform, campanulate, 15-20 x 20-30 mm, solitary or more usually in a few-to several-headed corymb. Involucral bracts in ± 10 series, graded, loosely imbricate, much exceeding florets, glossy, white, inner tinged pink or crimson at base inside, rarely outer bracts with brownish pink overcast, tips acute, radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, shortly honeycombed. Flowers: female and disc florets 102-329, 10-26 female; corolla of disc florets narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow; Dec.-Feb. Fruit with cypsela hairy. Pappus of few barbellate bristles, bases not cohering.
Perennial herb, 1-many leaf rosettes from a thick woody stock, flowering stems solitary, terminal, up to ± 300 mm high, closely leafy. Leaves: radical leaves up to 90 mm long, lanceolate, upper surface glandular-pubescent and cobwebby, wool deciduous, lower surface greyish white-woolly; cauline leaves similar, becoming bracteate. Capitula heterogamous, campanulate, 15-20 mm long, 20-30 mm in diam., solitary or in a few-to many-headed corymb; involucral bracts in ± 10 series, graded, glossy, white, tinged pink or crimson at base inside. Flowers 102-329. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. Pappus of ± 5 bristles, apex barbellate, bases free. Cypselae 1.5 mm long, hairy.
Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall. Radical leaves up to 90 x 15 mm, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, upper surface glandular-pubescent and cobwebby, lower greyish white woolly; cauline similar but smaller. Heads campanulate, 15-20 mm long, solitary or more usually in a few-to several-headed corymb. Flowers with involucral bracts white, inner tinged pink or crimson at base inside, rarely outer bracts with brownish pink overcast.
