A bushy spreading annual herb up to c. 600 mm tall, stems thinly greyish-white woolly, glabrescent, leafy. Leaves up to 80 x 12 mm, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, the upper ones linear-lanceolate, apex very acute to acuminate, base cordate or subcordate in the upper leaves, broad in the main stem leaves and decurrent, the wings often reaching to the node below or sometimes lower, margins entire, somewhat undulate, upper surface glandular, green drying brown, lower white-felted. Heads c. 3 mm long, campanulate, several together in tight clusters, these arranged in a large, wide-spreading corymbose panicle. InvoÂlucral bracts in c. 4series, loosely imbricate, innermost about equalling the flowers, whitish, woolly at the base. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers c. 36—100, c. 33—90 ("female"), 3 — 15 ("bisexual"), yellowish. Achenes c. 0,5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia. Fig. 10: 2.
