suffruticose, erect, branched from the base, woolly; leaves half-clasping, narrowed above the base, oblong-linear, acute, on both sides loosely woolly; heads roundish-ovate homogamous, many-fl., corymbose; invol. scales imbricated in many rows, glabrous, glossy, appressed, ovate, acute, rosy or fulvous at base, white-tipped, the innermost clawed, with an oval limb. A robust, woolly, corymbosely branched plant, woody at base, about 1 foot high. Leaves 1 inch long, 2–3 lines wide, equally distributed, callous-pointed. Heads 3 lines diameter, the inner scales white, the outer either rosy or fulvous, pedicellate.
