Serruria aemula, previously S. ciliata and commonly strawberry spiderhead, a name shared with other members of the genus, is a low-growing, sprawling and sometimes rounded shrublet reaching 30 cm in height.
The species distribution in the Western Cape is or was part of the Cape Flats, once common from Bellville to Salt River, Milnerton and Rondebosch.
Today only few plants still grow in its sandy flats and dune strandveld fynbos habitat. The species is considered critically endangered in habitat early in the twenty first century, due to habitat destruction (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).