Helichrysum teretifolium grows flowerheads in clusters at the tips of erect branches. Each head comprises a small central disc, yellow like miniature poached egg surrounded by the white or creamy white of blunt-tipped involucral bracts around the edges. The yellow part is a dense cluster of many small disc florets, the hallmark of Asteraceae flowerheads.
Seen from the side the flowerhead is bell-shaped, showing the concentric rows of small creamy or pinkish bracts. A head is about 5 mm in diameter. Before the flowerheads open, they are creamy white, only the bracts showing.
Blooming occurs in winter and spring.
The photo was taken in the De Hoop Nature Reserve (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).