A “low undershrub” (Holst). Flowering stems numerous, branched, glabrous, 10 in. to 1 1/2 ft. high, arising from a short ascending rhizome. Leaves densely crowded, pinoid, ending in a stout point, glabrous, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 1/4 lin. broad. Heads 10–15-flowered; involucral bracts 6–9, lanceolate, pale green, long-acuminate or caudate-acuminate, with a prominent midrib, glabrous, about 2/5 as long as the flowers, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad. Flowers 4-merous, pedicelled, “pale yellow” (Holst); pedicel 1 1/2–2 lin. long, bearing a brush of stiff erect hairs. Calyx-tube densely pubescent above the articulation and bearing stiff erect hairs below, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; lobes ovate-oblong, rounded or somewhat emarginate at the apex, pubescent on the outside, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad. Petals linear, somewhat fleshy towards the apex, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long. Ovary shortly stalked, glabrous.
