Thelesperma filifolium

Common name: Stiff Greenthread, Greenthread
Family: Asteraceae
Size: Up to 75 cm tall
Description: Upright, smooth, slender
Habitat: Several soils, loves sun

Flower:

• 3.8-5 cm across
• Ray flowers usually 8, yellow 
• 3 lobed at tip
• Disk flowers numerous, yellow or brown
• Heads solitary, terminal on slender, leafless stalk
• Nodding in bud

Stem and leaves:

• Leaves up to 10 cm long
• Opposite
• Blades divided into very narrow segments
• Stem solitary, usually branched at base, the branching again in upper portion