Dicoma tomentosa Cass.

Gebel Elba.

Egypt, Arabia, eastwards to Pakistan and western India, tropical east and west Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, southwards to Namibia and south Africa.

Sandy ground.

Annual.

tomentosa: tomentose, densely woolly

Erect annual herb. Stems purplish, covered in whitish felt-like hairs. Leaves linear-elliptic, folded upwards along the midrib, green above with short hairs, greyish below, densely covered in felt-like hairs. Capitula axillary, with long, bristly involucres, straw-coloured, tinged or striped with purple. Florets creamy-white.

Frequent