stem shrubby, erect, virgate, panicled at summit or simple, cobwebby, rib-striate, closely leafy; leaves shortly petioled, ovate or obovate, obtuse, rigid, conspicuously netted-veined, finely callous-serrulate, the younger cobwebbed, the older glabrous; corymb compound, many-headed, the pedicels scaly; heads radiate, 12–15-fl.; inv. calycled, of 7–9 broadish scales; rays 4–5, yellow, oblong; achenes striate, pubescent. Stems 2–3 feet high, strong, rod-like, subsimple, except at the flowering summit. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, 1–1 1/2 in. wide, tapering at base into a 1/2 inch petiole. Serratures minute and blunt. Invol. 3 lines long, much shorter than the flowers. Rays pale yellow.