Chrysocephalum baxteri

Perennial herb mostly 10–40 cm high; stems numerous, usually unbranched, densely white-woolly. Leaves linear, mostly 5–30 mm long and 0.5–2.5 mm wide, acute, base slightly broadened, margins recurved to revolute, upper surface ultimately green and glabrescent, lower surface densely white-woolly. Capitula solitary, terminal, broad-campanulate, mostly 2–3 cm diam.; involucre 10–12-seriate, 10–15 mm long; outer bracts brownish, subsessile; intermediate bracts longest, erect, exceeding florets by 5–9 mm, white, sometimes tinged brown, long-clawed. Florets bisexual. Cypselas 0.5–1.3 mm long; pappus 2–3 mm long, white. Flowers mostly spring and summer.