Fruticose, 2 ft. high or more; branches virgate, erect or ascending, slender, leafy above, terete, somewhat striate, whitish tomentose or puberulous at the extremities, puberulous or thinly lanate below, ultimately glabrate. Leaves linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, sessile, not narrowed at base, albido-tomentose beneath, nearly or quite glabrous and shining above, coriaceous, margins entire revolute; 1/2–3 1/4 in. long by 1/30– 2/5 in. wide; uppermost smaller. Capitula 1/3 in. long, on very short peduncles, solitary or 1–3 close together, terminal and subterminal. Scales of the involucre acute, apiculate, more or less woolly at the back at least above, reflexed at apex; inner linear, ciliate, scarcely exceeding the fl., outer successively shorter and more lanceolate and woolly. Receptacle areolate, narrow. Fl. pink. Achenes thinly and shortly pubescent when young, at length glabrate except at base where is a ring of erect hairs, 6–8-costate. Pappus biseriate; outer very short.
