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Edible: Leaves, Vegetable

A small herb. It can grow a few cm or 60 cm high. The whole plant has a white covering. The leaves are sword shaped and narrow. They are woolly and stalkless. The flower heads occur in dense clusters at the top of the plant. There can also be smaller clusters in the axils of leaves lower down. The flowers are a pale whitish yellow. They are surrounded by shiny bracts which are green near their bases. A head consists of many female flowers and a few bisexual disk flowers.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in well-drained dry sandy soils. In Africa it grows between 5-3,850 m above sea level. It can grow in mountain grassland as well as along the edges of streams. It often grows in poor sites. It is often close to water. It can grow in arid places. Tasmania Herbarium. In Sichuan

Common Names: Bal raksha, Muluvi-luvi, Umgilane

Synonyms: 

Gnaphalium luteo-album L.;
Gnaphalium trifidum Thunb.;
Pseudognaphalium luteo-album (L.) Hilliard & B. L. Burtt;
and many others
 

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