Syncarpha vestita

Syncarpha vestita, commonly known as Cape snow or Cape everlasting, and in Afrikaans as Kaapse sewejaartjie (Cape everlasting or little seven year), also strooiblommetjie (little straw flower), is a robust but soft shrublet of up to 1 m in height. The plant is erect and much branched, blooming best in the first few years after fire when it may be dominant.

The species distribution is along the south coast of the Western Cape from the Cape Peninsula to Knysna, also on the Swartberg Mountains. This plant was photographed at the Salmonsdam Nature Reserve in mid-January in an area that had burned a few years before.

The habitat is fynbos on sandstone flats and rocky slopes. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Marais, (Ed.), 2017; Manning, 2009; Bean and Johns, 2005; Mustart, et al, 1997; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).