root woody; stems erect, subsimple, leafy throughout, and, as well as the leaves, thickly coated with long, white, interwoven woolly hairs; leaves sessile, obovate, callous-mucronate, beneath the wool penninerved, the upper ones narrower and oblong or elliptical; corymb subpedunculate, much branched, many-headed, with woolly branches; heads subsessile, 12–15-fl.; invol. campanulate, 3–4-seriate, the scales loosely imbricated, outer and inner of nearly equal size, all glabrous and glossy, lanceolate-acuminate, bright yellow; recept. naked, narrow. Root thick and woody. Stems 1 or more, 12–15 inches high, densely leafy below, more laxly upwards, ending in a subpedunculate, spreading, corymbose cyme. All parts save the involucres very thickly white-woolly. Lower leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, 1 inch wide, upper 1–1 1/2 inch long, 1/4– 1/2 inch wide. Inflorescence 2–4 inches across. Inv. scales 3–4 lines long, 1/2 line wide. Recept. quite naked. Pappus rough. Achenes granulated. A very handsome and distinct species.
