Gnaphalium indutum

Grey-cottony annual to 5(–8) cm high, usually few-branched from base. Leaves linear, 6–20 mm long, 0.5–1.4 mm wide, both surfaces covered by subappressed, cottony hairs. Capitula crowded in a sessile terminal cluster or in an aggregation of several shortly pedunculate clusters, c. 5–20 mm diam. (sometimes 1–few pedunculate clusters borne from lower axils), usually overtopped by the closely subtending leaves. Capitular bracts in 2 or 3 series, c. oblong, 2–2.5 mm long; bisexual florets 1–4. Cypselas c. 0.4 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Dec.