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Botanical Description

A spreading, self-layering subshrublet 7-10cm tall in flower. Leaves crowded, usually in elongated rosettes on the short branches, spathulate, rather leathery, l-2cm by 2-8mm, three to five-toothed, often revolute, glabrous and dark green above, the lower woolly felted. Flowerheads solitary, terminal, yellow, on stems 1.5-3cm tall, campanulate, 9-11mm by 1-1.2cm with ten to fourteen ray florets 7-8 by 3.5mm, summer. Argentina and Chile, along the Andes from the southern cordilleras to the tip of Patagonia, usually in association with rocks and screes at 1000-2500m.