About Pteronia incana (Burm.fil.) DC.
Pteronia incana (Burm.fil.) DC. is a plant species that forms a low, dense bush. It produces small, light grey, woolly, fragrant leaves, which have a variety of medicinal uses. Its yellow flowerheads emerge in spring at branch tips; they are solitary, 15mm wide, smell of coconut, and are surrounded by non-sticky yellow-green bracts. This species is distributed in South Africa, ranging across the south-western Cape, throughout the Little Karoo and Robertson Karoo. Its range extends north through the Tanqua and Ceres Karoo into Namaqualand, south into the Overberg region (especially across the broader Breede River valley), and east into the Eastern Cape Province. Its natural habitat is renosterveld vegetation, where it grows in deep, silty, often clay-rich soils that typically derive from shales.
