Helichrysum trilineatum green leaves and many flowerheads

The form of Helichrysum trilineatum bearing narrow, hairless and bright green leaves presents an interesting phenomenon in intra-specific plant variation. The other form of the species has a distinct leaf type that is broader and grey-woolly. The variation can occur on the same plant, broader grey leaves typically found at the base of branches, narrower green ones towards the stem-tips. Plants bearing exclusively one or the other leaf type are more common, either in mixed stands or in pure colonies of their form.

Hemispherical yellow heads at the tops of erect stems on which linear green leaves ascend, appear very different to their greyer, hairier but still very close relatives (iNaturalist; https://keys.lucidcentral.org; https://www.worldfloraonline.org).