Helichrysum arenarium, (L.) Moench

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 130

13. H. arenarium (L.) Moench , Meth. 575 (1794).

Herbaceous perennial 8-3O(-5O) cm. Plant not sweet-smelling. Stems erect or ascending from the stout, branched stock, appressed-lanate, greyish-white. Leaves more or less densely whitish-tomentose; lower 50-70 mm, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 1 -veined, narrowed into the petiole; upper narrowly oblong-lanceolate to filiform, subacute, not apiculate. Non-flowering shoots with rosettes of broadly spathulate, petiolate leaves. Inflorescence 2-5 cm across; involucre 4-5 mm in diameter, subglobose, becoming hemispherical, yellow to reddish-orange, shining; bracts closely imbricate, the inner 5 times as long as the outer, narrowly spathulate, the outer suborbicular, somewhat tomentose at base. Outer florets hermaphrodite. Achenes scabrid. 2n =?14, 28. Dry, sandy places. From the Netherlands, S. Sweden and Estonia southwards to S. Germany, S. Bulgaria and W. Kazakhstan. Au Be Bu Cz Da Ga Ge Ho Hu Ju Po Rm Rs (B, C, W, K, E) Su.