Brachyglottis bidwillii

It is a shrub growing up to a meter tall. The branches are thick and the smaller branches and petioles are covered in whitish or pale brownish hairs. The leathery oval leaves are up to 2.5 centimeters long. They are shiny and hairless on the upper surfaces and woolly-haired on the undersides. The inflorescence is a panicle of bell-shaped flower heads containing disc florets. The fruit is an achene up to 8 millimeters long including its pappus of barbed white hairs.^[1]

The shrub is a dominant species in the scrub habitat of the mountain ranges surrounding Nelson on the northern South Island.^[2] It also grows in open grassland in Arthur's Pass National Park.^[3]