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Botanical Description

Tufted and white woolly. Leaves oblanceolate to spathulate, 4-12cm long including a long petiole, entire to pinnatisect. Flowerheads solitary on stems 5-30cm tall, the woolly involucre 1 by 1.5cm containing about seventy florets having 2-7mm long, white to soft pink rays, appearing over a five month period in the wild. Argentina and Fuegia in moist but well drained sandy or gravelly soils in heathland, moors, scrub clearings, feldmark and screes from sea level to 1200m. Somewhat resembles a neat version of Crepis incana in its pink forms.