Vellereophyton dealbatum

Ascending to erect annual, or sometimes biennial, 5–50 cm high; stems and leaves densely grey- or white-cottony. Leaves oblanceolate, 1–6 cm long, 0.2–0.7 cm wide. Capitula c. 2–3 mm long, 1–2 mm diam., commonly in clusters of c. 10–40; involucral bracts to c. 2 mm long, c. 0.2 mm wide, externally densely woolly except for the white, petaloid laminae 0.4–0.6 mm long, claw purplish internally; female florets 20–30; bisexual florets c. 6–9, corolla apices reddish. Cypselas ellipsoid-cylindric, c. 0.4 mm long; pappus c. 1.5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Apr.