Erect annual 5–15(–30) cm high; stems and branches usually cottony or cobwebbed. Leaves mostly broad-spathulate, 1–4 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, acute to obtuse, apiculate, base stem-clasping, margins entire or sometimes irregularly and distantly toothed, finely undulate, surfaces cottony, sometimes more densely beneath. Capitula 3–many, often in corymbose clusters, campanulate, 7–10 mm diam.; involucre c. 10-seriate, 4–8 mm long; outer bracts scarious, sessile, wholly golden-yellow or tinged brown; intermediate involucral bracts longest, erect, long-clawed, c. as long as florets. Florets female and bisexual. Cypselas 0.5–1 mm long; pappus 2–3 mm long, yellow. Flowers mostly spring and summer.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, WPro, HNF. In Victoria found mostly in the north-west, in grassland, herbfield and mallee scrub, often on sandy soil. Also scattered across the north of the State as far east as the Warby Ranges.
