stem robust, ligneous at base, herbaceous, ascending, clothed, as well as the petioles and under surface of the leaves with a thick, snow-white, felted, woolly coating; leaves on long, linear, ear-clasping petioles, cordate, remotely callous-denticulate, cobwebby (becoming glabrate) above; petioles of the upper leaves broad and amply dilated at base; corymbs laxly few or several headed, the pedicels glabrate; inv. glabrous, calycled, of many scales; heads many-fl., radiate, the rays yellow, about 12; achenes glabrous. Stems several, thick at base; 1–2 ft. high, leafy throughout, the lower leaves large and on long petioles; the upper gradually smaller, and the uppermost fiddle-shaped. Petioles 2–3 inches long; lamina 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches long, 1 1/2–2 in. wide. Toment very thick and white. Inv. 4–5 lines long, as much in diam.