Helichrysum setosum flowerheads

The flowerheads of Helichrysum setosum grow separately at the tips of long, leafy stems forming branched, fairly flat-topped clusters. Each head has several rows of glossy, dry, yellow involucral bracts around flat central discs, taller than the florets of the disc and oriented up to radiating out, like mini-sunflowers. The receptacle has no scales. The flowerhead diameter is from 2 cm to 3 cm.

The disc comprises numerous tiny, yellow florets that are fertile or bisexual, the outer florets may be female.

Flowering happens in summer, summer and autumn or even winter, maybe with regional differences (Germishuizen and Clarke, 2003; Pooley, 1998; Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; iNaturalist).