stem shrubby or suffruticose, branches widely spreading, woolly, pedunculoid at the extremity; leaves half-clasping and eared at base, fiddle-shaped, obtuse, subundulate, thinly woolly above, white-woolly beneath; heads in rather loosely branched, woolly (commonly few-headed) corymbose-cymes, many-fl., subglobose, glabrous; invol. scales ovate, acute or subacute, somewhat radiating, milk-white or rufous. Very like H. crispum, but with somewhat larger fl. heads, laxer inflorescence, and more spreading and acute inv. scales. Var. β. has the dense, many-headed inflorescence of H. crispum, but larger heads, and very large and broad leaves, rather slightly contracted below the middle. Stems 2–4 feet long. Leaves 1/2–1 1/2 inch long; in β. 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches long, 1–1 1/2 inch wide above, 1/2– 3/4 inch wide in narrow part.
