| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Helichrysum asperum (Thunb.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt trib. Gnaphalieae |
| Bibliography | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 34: 79 (1975) |
| Native Range | Zimbabwe, Southern Africa |
| Primary Biome | Subtropical |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 120-1200m |
| Description | branchlets glabrous or lanate, leaves linear, sessile, patent, obtuse, margins revolute, lanate or glabrous, capitula sessile, crowded of 3-6, at apex of branchlets |
| Size | 15-40cm |
| Color | white, reddish |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | shrub |
| Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-20°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Astelma lineare D.Don Gnaphalium ericifolium Salisb. Gnaphalium ericoides L. Gnaphalium laxum Sch.Bip. Gnaphalium metalasoides Sch.Bip. Helichrysum ericifolium (Salisb.) Less. Helichrysum ericoides (L.) D.Don ex G.Don Helichrysum laxum E.Mey. ex DC. Seriphium asperum (Thunb.) Pers. Stoebe aspera Thunb. |
| Territory | 2 Africa 26 South Tropical Africa (ZIM Zimbabwe) 27 Southern Africa (CPP Cape Provinces, NAM Namibia) |