sentences:  The flowers are borne in groups of between 140 and 160 in a head on the ends of branches with hairy, tapering linear involucral bracts up to long at the base of the head.The flowers have a golden yellow perianth is long that is hairy at its base and a yellow pistil long and glabrous.Flowering occurs in March or from July to October and the follicles are egg-shaped, long and woolly in the upper half.