Extremely spiky
Under a small tree in the middle of a large sandplain grassland.
Numerous stems. Go Botany keys out to this. Dense hairs on leaves and stems. Pink flowers densely clumped at tip of erect stem. Relatively ovate leaf blades (about 2x longer than wide). Stems to about 2-ft tall. Sandy barrens habitat.
Stipata or vulpinoidea? Not found in a location that is consistently wet.
coming back to this one