stem shrubby, erect, branches virgate, leafy, cobwebbed or glabrate; leaves lance-linear or linear, entire or denticulate, with revolute edges, midribbed beneath, glabrous or cobwebbed, or scaberulous; corymb peduncled, branched, its divisions compactly many-headed; pedicels short, scaly; heads radiate, 50–60-fl.; rays 8–10, broad; invol. calycled, of 12–15 glabrous or cobwebbed, narrow scales; achenes hispidulous on the striæ. A bush, 1–3 ft. high, either whitish from cobwebby, loose hairs, or nearly glabrous. Leaves 1–3 inches long, 1–3 lines wide, either simple at base, or in β. somewhat eared and toothed. Heads like those of S. rigidus, about 2 lines long.