Helianthemum cinereum (Cav.) Pers., it is a small, caespitose shrublet, up to 15 cm long. spreading or ascending, often with pinkish or purplish filiform branches, minutely whitish-tomentose. Leaves ovate-orbicular to linear-lanceolate, shortly petiolate, with rounded or sub cordate base, rarely sub cuneate, green above, whitish tomentose beneath, flat, lower exstipulate, upper usually stipulate, Inflorescence paniculate-corymbose or sub umbellate, (5-) 10-20-flowered. Flowers small, exstipulate, yellow, c. 1 mm across. Calyx sub globose, reddish, ciliately pubescent, obtuse. Petals as long as or exceeding the sepals; pedicels usually exceeding the sepals, filiform, pubescent. Capsules included within the calyx.
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