Edmondia pinifolia is a sparsely branched shrublet with slender, white-woolly stems growing to 60 cm, mostly well shorter than that.
The lower leaves are alternate, ascending and needle-like with rolled under margins. These leaves are sufficiently sparsely spaced to expose parts of the white woolliness of the stems in the photo. The upper leaves are shorter and broader, grading into the bracts of the flowerhead.
The plant in picture has no trouble having a life in a rock crevice in Bainskloof (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).