Annual herb, stems simple or branchÂing from the base, stiffly erect to c. 1 m, branching above into the compound infloresÂcence, loosely white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves up to 80 x 4 (—8) mm, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, apex subacute to acute, base broad, more or less cordate-clasping, scarcely decurrent, marÂgins entire, often somewhat undulate, upper surface glandular, green drying brown, lower white-felted. Heads c. 4 mm long, broadly campanulate, several together in tight clusters, these arranged in a large corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, imbricate, innermost slightly exceedÂing the flowers, stereome undivided, lamina whitish, the outer 2 series white-woolly on the backs. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers c. 150—440 in our area, 135-415 ("female"), 10-30 ("bisexual"). Achenes c. 0,5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia. Fig. 10: 1.
