stem suffruticose at base, erect, or diffuse, branching, branches tomentose, ending in a leafless peduncle; leaves long-decurrent, spathulate, oblong or lanceolate, 1–3-nerved, membranous, white-woolly, the older becoming nude above, setoso-scabrid; cymes more or less peduncled, densely much-branched, the branches unibracteate; heads subsessile, oblong, 10–12-fl.; inv. scales erect, glabrous, oblong, obtuse, the outer shorter and fulvous, inner yellow. Stem 1/2–1 1/2 f. high, erect or spreading, much branched. Leaves 1/2–1 1/2 inch long, 2–4 lines wide. Cymes 1–3 inches across, variably compound, always very dense.
