Edmondia sesamoides

Edmondia sesamoides, commonly known as the everlasting and in Afrikaans as the sewejaartjie (little seven year), is a shrublet growing few erect, slender stems to heights around 30 cm. The stems are white with a fine woolly covering and narrow green leaves that cling to the stem surfaces.

The stems are tipped with "everlasting" papery flowerheads from late winter to after summer. The disc florets in each head are yellow within an enclosing involucre consisting of several rows of papery bracts that may be white, yellow or pink.

The species distribution is in the Western Cape from the Cape Peninsula northwards to the Cederberg and eastwards to Mossel Bay.

The habitat is variable fynbos on rocky and sandy slopes and flats. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Marais, (Ed.), 2017; Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; Wikipedia; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).