Picris squarrosa Steetz

Perennial, 20–120 cm high, sparingly to densely branched. Anchor hairs 2-hooked. Peduncles 1–15 (–20) cm long, peduncular bracts few to many, gradually transitioning into outer involucral bracts. Capitula few to > 70, 9–18 mm long and 5–9 mm wide at anthesis, (9–) 12–19 mm long and 6–10 mm wide in fruit. Involucre of 35–50 bracts in 3–4 outer and 2 inner rows, with longest outer bracts slightly, rarely clearly (1/2–1/4) shorter than inner bracts; outer involucral bracts distinctively squarrose, recurved, linear to ovate or obovate, acute, (4.2–) 5.0–17.5 mm long, 1.3–2.1 mm wide, not wider than inner bracts; margin glabrous or rarely with few simple hairs; midrib glabrous or with a single line of straight hairs 0.2–0.8 (–1.3) mm long. Achenes including cuspis 5.0–8.0 mm long; cuspis 0.7–2.6 mm long, c. (1/7–) 1/5–1/3 of total achene length.

Found on coastal sand dunes, inland on riverbanks and alluvial river flats, often in Eucalyptus woodland (E. camaldulensis, E. largiflorens), in naturally disturbed areas and tracksides; vulnerable to urbanisation. 

The stems have been cooked and eaten.