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Mini poppy?

By the seaside...

stunted plants 5 cm to about 25 cm but then sprawling. Leaves very succulent.

The white threads are the filaments ...

Carpark and picnic area.

Slightly further back from the first dune.

Blaauwberg Nature Reserve

Being used as nest by Verreaux's Eagle-Owl female and nestling.
See also:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194441058.

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Wahlenbergia?

Dissection by @jwicht

Small in diametre. The bases of the spines are broad in the leaf recesses.

clump forming; seems to be restricted to heavy clays in southern Swartland; seldom very common

leaves in fascicles

Small shrublet

sp.2 Collected by Abraham S.
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos & Swartland Shale Renosterveld ecotone.

Old woody plant. On shale outcrop, west facing

Aspalathus

Little plant growing in water

Rounded shrublet, c 50 cm high, hairy leaves

Shallow dunes over calcrete, dispersed between ephemeral vleiland.

tiny, on shale flats

Growing on seasonal wetlands