An odd little desert plant, only two or three inches high, with stiff, smooth, dull bluish-green leaves, with prickly edges, like holly leaves but not so stiff, and one quite pretty, light purplish-pink flower, the head about an inch long, with purplish bracts. The effect of the whole plant is of a little sprig stuck into the sand.

Ptilonella-Brown-foot - Perezia Wrigritii. Desert Holly-P. nana. SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae.