stem suffruticose at base, branches long, simple, densely-leafy, whitish; leaves sessile, wrinkled and cob-webby above, white-woolly beneath, three-nerved, the lower oblong, acute, the upper lanceolate, acuminate, with subrevolute margins; heads many-fl., in simple or branched corymbose-cymes, subsessile or pedicelled; inv. slightly cobwebbed at base, campanulate, loosely imbricate, the scales broadly oblong, membranous, undulate, obtuse, rufous, squarrose, the innermost paler, spreading; fimbrils short. Stems branched near the base; branches 10â15 inches long, leafy throughout. Leaves 1â1 1/4 inch long, 2 lines wide; sometimes the upper ones very long and narrow, 1/2 line wide. Inv. either pale, tawny, reddish, or brownish-purple. Less woody and branching than H. teretifolium, with broader leaves. Sometimes confounded with H. erosum, but always to be known by its involucre. Heads 35â40-fl.
