A South African plant, native to the Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland, Northern Provinces, and Eswatini.
An aromatic, weakly ascending to procumbent glandular pubescent annual to short-lived perennial herb up to approximately 60 cm in length. The plant is much branched from the base and along the stems. The leaves are narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate and entire to shallowly toothed, up to 4-5 cm long, with both glandular and non-glandular hairs. The small flowering heads (5-8 mm across) are solitary at the tips of the branches or in leaf axils and have small numbers (approximately 6-12) of yellow ray florets. The one-seeded brown achene fruits lack a pappus and are commonly obconic and prominently ridged and pitted, but can be of multiple forms within plants and individual heads. Many fruits have narrowly winged vertical ridges and a hollow cup-shaped apical beak, but some lack the pitting and ridges or the cup-shaped beak, and others may have a solid horn-shaped beak. More prominently winged fruits have been reported as one of the fruit types from other areas in the range of the species. (CDFA)
Not common in the ornamental trade, although seeds are sold by a few sources.
