Erect shrub, up to 60-(100) cm tall. Stems densely white-lanate, finally glabrous toward woody base, much-branched above and below. Lvs densely white- lanate on lower surface, somewhat less hairy and grey on upper surface, petiolate; petiole much < lamina, slightly amplexicaul; lamina lyrate-pinnatifid or 2-3-pinnatisect, ovate to elliptic, obtuse at apex, (2)-3-10 × (1.5)-2-6 cm; segments narrow-oblong to ovate; venation pinnate. Lvs subtending infl. becoming smaller, apetiolate, and often 1-pinnatisect with narrower segments, or not lobed and entire. Capitula numerous, in dense corymbs. Supplementary bracts 2-8, lanceolate, 1.5-3 mm long. Involucral bracts 10-14, oblong, densely lanate, 4.5-7 mm long. Ray florets 7-15; ligules yellow, 3-7 mm long. Disc golden yellow. Achenes cylindric, glabrous, 2-2.5 mm long; pappus 6-7 mm long.