Helichrysum dasyanthum

Helichrysum dasyanthum, commonly the fynbos everlasting, is a straggling, woolly green shrub that may grow to 1,5 m in height, spreading wider than that. The stems branch much; the young ones tending to be erect. 

The species distribution is in a broad strip along the Western Cape south and west coasts, northwards to Namaqualand into the Northern Cape and eastwards into the Eastern Cape, as far as Baviaanskloof and at the coast. There is also a small, discrete area in southern Namibia, just north of the Richtersveld where a population of this species grows. 

The habitat is dune scrub and fynbos on coastal flats and lower slopes in sandy and rocky places. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).