Often cultivated for its showy flowers, this is a small shrub (to 25 cm tall) with erect to decumbent* branches.
The leaves are fused at their bases, compressed 3-angled in cross-section to sword-shaped, 0.6-3 cm long, rough with green dots and glaucous (covered with a greyish waxy bloom).
Usually the golden-yellow to lemon-yellow (rarely pale yellow-white) flowers are solitary. They are up to 3 (-5) cm in diameter and appear in June-October.
Occurring from the Gifberg to Cape Peninsula on seasonally wet sandstone or loam soils.
Pictures taken on the Gifberg, August 11 of this year.
* lying flat on the ground with raised tips.
