much branched, twigs villoso-hirsute; leaves ovate or elliptical, or oblong, acute at each end, sessile, flat, one-nerved, densely and softly villous on both surfaces; flowers in terminal heads, subsessile; outer bracts lanceolate, shaggy, inner setaceous; pedicels and calyx densely villoso-hirsute, the calyx lobes acuminate, about equalling the tube. A densely branched, somewhat corymbose bush, 2–3 feet high and wide, thickly clothed with soft, long, whitish, appressed hairs. Leaves imbricating, 1/2, 3/4, or 1 inch long, 1/4– 1/2 inch wide, erect or spreading. Heads 6–8, several flowered; their pubescence fulvous.
