Tufted, often stoloniferous perennial. Leaves rosetted and cauline, elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate; rosette leaves often long-pseudopetiolate, 1–8(–13) cm long, 5–13(–25) mm wide, upper surface greyish, cobwebbed, occasionally glabrescent, lower surface whitish, with dense, appressed, cottony hairs. Flowering stems spreading to ascending, 5–10(–15) cm long, with c. 4–many leaves smaller than those of rosette, usually becoming more densely cobwebbed above toward inflorescence. Inflorescence terminal (rarely 1–few small axillary clusters below), 8–15 mm diam.; subtending leaves 2–4, 6–25 mm long, densely felted above. Capitula 4–10, campanulate or cup-shaped; inner bracts c. oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm long, obtuse, deeply lacerated at apex, hyaline in the upper half, rarely with a faint purplish band; bisexual florets 6–16 (sometimes more than female florets). Cypselas 1.2–1.4 mm long, sparsely hairy. Flowers Oct.–Feb.