Mat-forming perennial herb or sub-shrub, stock stout, woody, up to 10 mm diam., stems many, well-branched, branches up to 5 mm diam., prostrate, older parts rooting, young parts leafy, leaves more or less rosetted when branchlets very short. Leaves 10-100 x 1,5-3 (-5) mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, upper surface sometimes greyish-white or white-felted, but usually only glandular-pubescent, lower surface sometimes silky-woolly or silky-felted, but usually at maturity wool confined to the margins and 3 parallel veins, margins slightly involute. Heads homogamous, camÂpanulate, 7—12 (—15) mm long, 12—25 mm across the fully radiating bracts, solitary or up to 4 clustered at the tips of erect leafy stems up to 150 mm tall. Involucral bracts in c. 6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, about equalling flowers, glossy white, occasionally washed palest yellowish brown outside. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 71 — 154, yellow. Achenes c. 1,25 mm, barrel-shaped, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Fig. 53:2.
