glabrous; stem shrubby, fleshy, much-branched; branches mult-angular (furrowed when dry); leaves distant, minute, linear-subulate, fleshy; peduncles 3–5 at the ends of the branches, much shorter than the involucres, bearing 2–4 scattered, subulate bracts; inv. cylindrical, of 5, linear, acute, margined, rigid scales, half as long as the corollas; flowers 5 in the head, perfect; achenes elongate, cylindrical, multistriate, rigidly hispidulous between the ribs; pappus longer than the corolla. Two feet or more high, much-branched; the branches 3–4 lines diameter, prismatically angled. Leaves 3–4 lines long (perhaps longer on young shoots), scale-like. Peduncles 1/4 and 1/3 inch long. Inv. scales 8–9 lines long. Pappus twice as long, pale-creamy, silky, copious.
