Pulicaria dysenterica (L.) Bernh.

Erect, rhizomatous perennial, up to 50–(70) cm tall. Stems densely hairy when young, becoming glabrous below, much-branched but usually only above. Lower lvs scabrid on upper surface, tomentose and sparsely glandular on lower, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, apetiolate and amplexicaul (lowermost lvs petiolate but withered at flowering), acute, remotely serrate, 3–5 × 1–2 cm; uppermost lvs smaller, often ovate-triangular and auriculate. Capitula c. 2 cm diam., in corymbs of 1–4. Outer involucral bracts herbaceous with membranous margins, linear-lanceolate, hairy and glandular, 3.5–6 mm long; inner bracts similar but membranous and only glandular. Ray florets numerous; ligules yellow, 3–5.5–(7) mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes with short antrorse hairs on the 10–12 narrow ribs, obovoid, 1–1.2 mm long; pappus scales c. 0.2 mm long; pappus hairs minutely barbellate, narrow at apex, 2.5–3.5 mm long.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jan.–Apr.