Flora of New Zealand Series

Stems usually clothed in dense white or pinkish tomentum. Basal lvs usually obtuse. Cauline lvs usually flat, sometimes undulate; uppermost lvs usually plane, sometimes folded. Inner involucral bracts apiculate at apex, usually not coloured in bud.

N.: N. and S. Auckland, Opotiki District, inland Hawke's Bay, uncommon; S.: one early collection from Ashburton.

Western N. America 1970

Roadsides, waste places, scrub, plantations, lakesides.