White-woolly herb, root possibly perennial, stems tufted from the crown, very variable in length, mostly 30-450 mm, prostrate to weakly erect, subsimple to laxly branched, woolly, leafy. Leaves mostly 6-35(-50) x 2-5 mm, smaller upwards, oblanceolate or narrowly spathulate, apex obtuse to subacute, base much attenuated, petiole-like especially in lower leaves, both surfaces thinly white woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 2.5-3 x 2-2.5 mm, in small glomerules 5-10 mm across, subcorymbosely arranged at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in c. 5 series, backs woolly, outer shorter, inner subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, sometimes purplish red above stereome, tips broadly ovate to suborbicular, very obtuse, opaque white, radiating, eventually whole bract rotate. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 20-37, 5-13 ('female'), 15-24 ('bisexual'), yellow, tipped pink. Achenes 0.5 mm long, with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips subplumose, bases with patent cilia, scarcely cohering.
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Rounded, white-woolly, weakly erect annual or perennial herb, up to 200 mm tall. Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, apex obtuse to subacute. Flowerheads disciform, in glomerules arranged in corymbs at branch tips; tips of inner involucral bracts broadly ovate to obtuse, white, with purplish red blotch near centre; bisexual florets 2 or 3 times as many as female florets, yellow, tipped pink. Pappus bristles with subplumose tips.
Rounded, white-woolly annual to 20 cm. Leaves oblanceolate. Flower heads discoid, in glomerules arranged in corymbs.
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