Helichrysum Mill. >
At least some of the involucre bracts with an elongated claw Helichrysum
Involucral bracts straw-coloured to yellow, sometimes tinged with brown
Heads solitary on leafy peduncles. Leaves basal and cauline, up to 6 cm long, oblong-spathulate to linear, glabrous to woolly on the upper surface, woolly underneath. Involucre hemispherical 10–20 mm or more diam.; bracts numerous spreading. Cypselas glabrous, 1–2 mm long. Perennial herb, often decumbent, up to 30 cm high, woolly. Widespread. Grasslands and forests, usually on heavy soils. Fl. spring–summer Helichrysum scorpioides