Isopogon asper

Isopogon asper is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–0.8 m (7.9 in–2 ft 7.5 in) and has hairy reddish-brown branchlets. The leaves are crowded, up to about 20 mm (0.79 in) long and pinnate with cylindrical or grooved leaflets on a petiole up to about 13 mm (0.51 in) long. The flowers are arranged in sessile, densely clustered, flattened-spherical heads up to 40 mm (1.6 in) in diameter. The involucral bracts are egg-shaped and pointed and the flowers are about 18 mm (0.71 in) long, pink and glabrous. Flowering occurs from June to October and the fruit is a hairy nut, fused in a spherical head up to 20 mm (0.79 in) in diameter.