Helichrysum revolutum

Helichrysum revolutum, commonly known in Afrikaans as the strandsewejaartjie (beach everlasting) and previously scientifically as Gnaphalium revolutum, is an erect or sprawling, rounded shrub reaching heights around 2 m and often as wide. The white woolly stems are soft apart from at the woody plant base, and branch much.

This species distribution is widespread from Namibia through much of Namaqualand in the Northern Cape and the west of the Western Cape to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to the western part of the Little Karoo.

The habitat is coastal scrub in sandy soil or inland stony slopes. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Manning, 2007; iNaturalist; iSpot; JSTOR; http://redlist.sanbi.org).