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Galgera

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial

About

Galgera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It includes a single species, Galgera decurrens, which is native to Algeria's Hoggar Mountains, northeastern Africa from Chad to Somalia, the southern Arabian Peninsula, and southern Africa from Angola and Zambia to South Africa, where it grows in seasonally dry areas.

Galgera decurrens is an herbaceous perennial with grey-green leaves and an erect habit which grows from 25 to 200 cm tall. The entire plant is highly aromatic and covered with dense wooly hairs.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Galgera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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