Citation: Norlindh, Aquilo Ser. Botanica 6:84 (1967).

Synonymy: Arctotis populifolia P. Bergius, Desc. Pl. Cap. 323 (1767); Cryptostemma niveum Nicholson,Ill. Dici. Gard. 1:404 (1884); A. nivea (Nichols0n)Lewin, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 11:50 (1922).

Common name: Beach daisy.

Description:
Spreading fleshy perennial herb to 30 cm high; stems herbaceous, robust, prostrate to ascending, branched, ribbed, with dense white felt-like tomentum; leaves mostly cauline, petiolate, the lamina broadly ovate, rhomboid or deltoid, entire or with a pair of small lobes at the base of a terminal lobe, 4-7 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, tomentose to pubescent above, whitetomentose below; margins slightly dentate or entire; peduncles erect, axillary, 6-11 cm long, with dense white felt-like tomentum.

Capitula solitary, 1.5-2 cm diam.; involucre hemispherical, 10-15 mm long; bracts 3- or 4-seriate, broadly lanceolate, densely tomentose, acute, the upper series with scarious margins; ray florets 10-15; ligules 5-7 mm long, yellow; disk florets numerous, yellow.

Achenes c. 5 mm long, white-sericeous to tomentose; pappus of minute obtuse scales.

Distribution:  Pioneer of beach sand on front dunes with Spinifex. S.Aust.: NU, EP, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: most of the year.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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