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Botanical Description

Glandularia aurantiaca). Sparsely branching, glabrous perennial with decumbent stems 16-40cm long. Leaves rather spaced-out, shiny green to slightly glaucous with smaller ones in the axils, thick textured, entire to strongly three-toothed or three lobed, 1-2.5cm by 2-8mm, spathulate to obovate with a broadly rounded tip, tapering to the base, but without an obvious petiole. Inflorescences compact, capitate on peduncles 3-8cm long, subtended by linear-lanceolate, downy bracts composed of eight to sixteen orangey or lemon to buff-yellow flowers, 1.2-1.6cm across, with ashy-haired calyces 8mm long, late summer. Argentina, central and southern Patagonia at 25-300m. G. flava from much father north in the central cordilleras of Argentina has thinner, more distinctly divided (trifid) leaves and always paler flowers.

V. azorelloides (Speg.) Mold. (syn. Junellia azorelloides). Rather soft cushion shrublet forming a green to slightly hoary dome or mat 2-7cm thick and up to 1m across in the wild. Leaves rosetted, sessile, simple, entire, linear-oblong, l-6mm in length, minutely adpressed downy, their margins somewhat fringed towards the base, their tips bluntly rounded. Inflorescences six to twelve-flowered capitate spikes which can form a ring around the edge of the plant or may completely cover its surface. Each flower has a minutely downy calyx 7mm long and a showy corolla varying from all-white with a faint yellow eye on some plants to pale blush pink aging to rich crimson-lake or even darker, on others sometimes opening pale yellow, 7-8 by 8-10mm, the tapered lobes widest and deeply bifid at the tips, late spring to summer. Argentina, Patagonia on windswept steppe, in sandy or gravelly fields, plains and banks among mixed communities of scattered dwarf perennials or bunchgrass at 100-300m.