Lygodesmia juncea D.Don ex Hooker.

Perennials, 10–35(–70) cm (in bushy clumps); taproots deep, vertical, rhizomes branched, woody. Stems erect to ascending or decumbent, green, glaucous, much branched from bases and distally, strongly striate, glabrous (often bearing round galls). Leaves (basal not in rosettes, absent at flowering); proximal blades linear, 5–30(–60) × 1–2(–4) mm, margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous; cauline reduced to subulate scales. Heads (1–50+) borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. Involucres cylindric, 10–16 × 4–6 mm, apices spreading. Calyculi of 8, ovate to linear bractlets 2–4 mm, margins erose-ciliate (faces glabrous). Phyllaries 5(–7), linear, 10–15 mm, margins scarious, apices acute or obtuse, not appendaged, faces glabrous . Florets usually 5; corollas usually light pink to lavender, rarely white, 18–20 mm, ligules 3–4 mm wide. Cypselae 6–10 mm, weakly striate, glabrous ; pappi 6–9 mm. 2n = 18.

It is a temperate plant.

The roots are left in the sun until the gum is released and hardened and then chewed.

Can be grown by seedlings.