Botanical name

Seriphium plumosum

Family

Asteraceae

Common Name

Slangbos

Synonym (old name)

Stoebe plumosa
Seriphium plumosum
Seriphium plumosum
Seriphium plumosum
Seriphium plumosum
Seriphium plumosum
Seriphium plumosum

Description

Sprawling white-woolly, softly woody shrub up to 1m with numerous widely branching short-shoots; leaves small, granular, tufted; bears globular axillary heads of discoid flowerheads arranged in spike-like infloresences; brownish florets and pointed, golden-brown bracts.

Habitat

Rocky flats and slopes

Flower Date

April to July