Arctotheca populifolia plant5 (14845649753)

Description:

Description: Introduced, yearlong green, perennial, white-felted, succulent herb to 30 cm tall. Stems are robust, prostrate to ascending, branched and ribbed. Leaves are mostly cauline, ovate to oblate with a lamina 2–6 cm long; margins are entire or slightly toothed; petioles are to 8 cm long. Heads are hemispherical and 15–20 mm wide; involucral bracts are 3-4-seriate and white-felted. Ray and disc florets are yellow. Fruit are 5 mm long achenes enveloped in whitish wool; pappus is minute. Flowering occurs over most of the year. A native of South Africa, it is a pioneer of beach sand on front dunes with Spinifex (Spinifex sericeus). Date: 31 July 2014, 11:55. Source: Arctotheca populifolia plant5. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.