Erect or sprawling bushy perennial, mostly 30–70 cm high; young stems woolly to cobwebbed with underlying glandular hairs. Leaves linear, mostly 1–3 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, acute, mucronate, both surfaces woolly to cobwebbed with underlying glandular hairs, margins sometimes undulate. Capitula broad-campanulate, 12–18 mm diam.; involucral bracts broad-linear, to 10 mm long, cobwebbed-tomentose with underlying glandular hairs, apices brown, scarious laciniate-ciliate; outer bracts shortest. Florets yellow. Cypselas 2.5–4 mm long, glabrous; pappus bristles 18–24, 6–11 mm long. Flowers most of year.