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This mat-forming perennial to about 20cm tall, with creeping stolons and a basal rosette of leaves greyish green and hairy above with downy, white felted undersides. Solitary yellow flowerheads, borne on leafless stems, are 2-3cm across with ray florets marked with a red stripe on the underside, produced in summer.

About the genus

A genus of herbaceous perennials spreading by rhizomes or stolons, with hariy leaves in basal rosettes, and sometimes as smaller stem leaves. The stems are topped with dandelion-like flowers, in shades of mainly yellow, sometimes orange or more rarely red or white

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