stem erect, simple, leafy at the base only, pedunculoid upwards, densely woolly; subradical leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or oblong, acute at each end, the cauline one or two, stem-clasping, ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate, all faintly 5–7-nerved, densely woolly beneath, piloso-scabrid and (at first) thinly cobwebbed, becoming glabrate above; heads very many in a diffusely much-branched, woolly corymbose-cyme, many-fl., pedicellate; invol. campanulate, imbricate, all the scales dorsally woolly below, their apices glabrous, membranous, lanceolate-acuminate, squarrose, pale horn-colour or purplish. Allied to H. latifolium, from which it differs in the evidently petiolate root-leaves, the much more diffuse inflorescence, and especially in the invol. scales. Stem 1–1 1/2 feet high. Leaves 3–4 inches long, 1 1/2–2 inches, wide. There is usually a single, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate floral-leaf about the middle of the peduncle, and one at the base of the cyme.
