Edmondia fasciculata

Edmondia fasciculata, sometimes called the gold scaly sewejaartjie, is a sparsely branched shrublet occasionally exceeding 30 cm in height.

The lower leaves are needle-like with margins rolled upwards. Higher up the leaves are scale-like, pressed against the stems, grading into the involucral bracts at stem-tips and sometimes brown.

The solitary stem-tip flowerheads have several rows of bright yellow, overlapping involucral bracts that are glossy and papery with pointed tips. The fruits are ellipsoid with feathery bristles on the pappuses. Flowering happens from late winter to after midsummer.

The species distribution is in the southwest of the Western Cape from Tulbagh to Worcester, Hermanus and Riviersonderend.

The habitat is mountain fynbos on rocky, sandstone slopes. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Manning 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; https://redlist.sanbi.org).