Citation: P. Bergius, Desc. Pl. Cap. 324 (1767).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: White arctotis.

Description:
Spreading perennial herb to 35 cm high; stems prostrate to ascending, branched, becoming slightly woody at the base, densely white-tomentose; leaves cauline, sessile, oblanceolate, the lower ones often lyrate-pinnatipartire, 4-10 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, concolorous, greyish, tomentose; margins irregularly dentate.

Capitula 5-7 cm diam., solitary, terminal on erect unbranched peduncles with few reduced leaves; involucre hemispherical, c. 1.5 cm long; bracts c. 5-seriate, lower ones with spreading linear points; upper ones longer with obtuse scarious apices; ray florets 15-20; ligules oblong, 3-toothed at the apex, 2.5-3 cm long, white above, mauve below, with a dark band at the base; disk florets numerous, purple-black.

Achenes densely sericeous, 3-4 mm long, 5-ridged, 2 ridges longer and incurved, giving the appearance of a 3-celled fruit; pappus scales 7 or 8, oblong, 3-4 mm long, pinkish.

Distribution:  A garden escape on sand of coastal dunes. S.Aust.: MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug. — Feb.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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