Gorteria integrifolia in full cry

Gorteria integrifolia can flower abundantly in season, best after rain. The flowerheads grow solitary at stem-tips and there are clearly many of them.

The photo was taken in the Little Karoo on the Minwater farm near Oudtshoorn.

After flowering the single-seeded dry fruits or achenes develop from the inferior ovaries. They are fused to the calyx tubes, covered at the top in silky hairs and crowned with pappuses (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist; Wikipedia).