Gorteria integrifolia

Gorteria integrifolia, in Afrikaans known as haarbossie (little hair bush) and previously scientifically Hirpicium integrifolium, is a much branched, rounded shrublet conspicuously covered in bristly hairs. The plant grows to 50 cm.

The distribution of the species is in the east of the Western Cape to the west of the Eastern Cape from about Worcester to Willowmore, mainly in the Little Karoo.

The habitat is varied shrubland in clay soils. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century. 

The plant is palatable to game and livestock, its presence a sign of well managed veld (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; JSTOR; http://redlist.sanbi.org).