Erect perennial, 6–9 in. high; stem simple, leafy below, terete, cottony. Leaves oval-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, sessile, clasping, tomentellous on both sides, especially beneath, faintly 3–5-nerved, entire, 2–4 in. long by 1/2– 5/6 in. wide, upper smaller. Capitula hemispherical, very numerously flowered, about 1 in. diameter, on short pedicels clustered 3–4 together at end of stem in subglobose cymes 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. diameter. Scales of the involucre multi-seriate, imbricate, shining, of orange colour; inner linear, subobtuse, glabrous, exceeding the fl.; outer successively shorter, subacute; outermost ovate, woolly at base outside. Receptacle flat, naked, 1/3 in. diameter. Fl. all hermaphrodite. Achenes glabrous.
