Arctotis semipapposa

Arctotis semipapposa is a soft sprawling perennial of the Caledon and Hermanus area. It grows to about 60 cm in height with prostrate branched stems. The leaves are lanceolate to narrowly obovate. The margins are finely and irregularly toothed, sometimes almost entire. Leaf tips are rounded, tapering slowly at the base. Their colour is fresh or bright green with a shallow indentation on the upper surface along the midrib. The lower surface is whitish velvety with fine hairs.

The flowerheads have yellow ray florets as well as yellow disc centres. The petals, about eleven or twelve in number, are narrowly elliptic with two longitudinal indentations from tip to base. Flowers are borne solitary on thick green stalks, longitudinally lined with white or purple. While the name is accepted, there seems to be ambiguity as to the range of plant forms covered by it.

These flowers were found in December in Fernkloof where the plant is common in open patches on lower slopes. Flowering occurs from mid-spring into autumn (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).