Perennial herb, stock often with vegeÂtative buds, stems solitary or 2—6 from the base, usually simple below the inflorescence branches, mostly c. 750 — 1 500 mm high, precocious plants shorter, glandular setose, upper parts sometimes thinly cobwebby as well, leafy throughout. Leaves mostly 50-70 (-80) x 8-20 (-26) mm, smaller on the inflorescence branches, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, uppermost lanceolate, acute to acuminate, mucronate, base cordate-clasping, shortly decurrent, both surfaces glandular-setose, margins and mid-vein below often white-woolly as well. Heads heterogamous, depressed-globose, c. 10-15 mm long, c. (20-) 23-28 mm across the radiating bracts, few to many in a leafy spreading corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in c. 9 series, graded, imbricate, much exceeding the flowers, glossy, bright yellow. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers c. 720-1130, 55-100 ("female"), 800-1025 ("bisexual"). Achenes 1 mm long, barrel-shaped, glabÂrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling the corolla, tips barbellate, shaft scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia.
