stem erect, simple, leafy to or beyond the middle, tomentose; radical leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute at both ends, tapering at base into a glabrate petiole, 3–5-nerved, smooth above, cobwebby-tomentose and whitish beneath; cauline, sessile, lance-linear, acuminate; corymb loosely much-branched; heads subsessile; inv. campanulate, imbricate, nearly glabrous, its scales shining, imbricate, roundish oval, very obtuse, erect, golden-yellow. Very like H. nudifolium (especially var. β.) but more tomentose, with the upper surfaces of the leaves quite smooth, not scaberulous, their bases not decurrent, &c. I fear however that the characters are not constant.
