Short-lived perennial herb; stems up to ± 5 dm. long, erect, sulcate, us. much-branched from hard woody stock; branches clad in dense white cobwebby tomentum, thinning with age. Lower and mid lvs subsessile, ± 5-10 cm. × 2-5 mm., linear to narrow-lanceolate, strongly recurved, often almost to midrib, acute to subacuminate, clad in cobwebby white hairs on both surfaces, becoming ± glab. above with age, obscurely and remotely denticulate. Upper lvs similar, us. with small auricles at base, merging into linear bracts of infl. Infl. a lax corymbose panicle with ∞ capitula up to 10 mm. long, 7 mm. diam. on slender hairy pedicels; calyculus of a few bracteoles c. 2 mm. long. Phyll. 10-14, ± 6·5-8 mm. long, narrowed from base to acute apex, margins ciliolate, scarious. Florets ± 20-30; ♀ filiform, 5·5-6 mm. long, (3)-4-toothed; perfect slender-funnelform, teeth 4-5, slightly thickened at tips. Achenes narrow-cylindric, very slightly curved, narrowed abruptly to apex, scabridulous on flattish ribs, c. 2.5-3-(4) mm. long. Pappus-hairs fine, white, 5-6 mm. long.