Chrysocoma coma-aurea L.

Rounded shrub to 80 cm tall, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Leaves linear, to 1.5 cm long, about 1 mm wide, entire. Capitula diskoid, solitary or in leafy corymbs, to 1.5 cm across; spring. Florets yellow. Achenes about 1mm long, hairy. Pappus of many small outer scales and longer inner barbed bristles.

S Africa

Source: Jeanes, J. (2002). Asteraceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Asterales
family       Asteraceae
genus        Chrysocoma L.