Perennial herb or subshrub 30–100 cm high, viscid; stems erect, glandular-pubescent and viscid (smelling of cinnamon), purple-tinged, leafy. Leaves sessile, oblong-linear to oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4.5–17 cm long, 0.5–2 cm wide, tapered to an auriculate or subauriculate ± semi-amplexicaul base, margins remotely to coarsely sinuate-denticulate, apex subacute to rounded, apiculate, light green, sticky, ± glandular-pubescent above and beneath, marcescent when old. Capitula radiate, erect, 1–7 in lax terminal cymes; stalks of the individual capitula glandular; involucre cylindrical, 9–16 mm long, 5–8 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 4–6, lax, lanceolate, 3.5–9 mm long, densely glandular; phyllaries 12–14, 8.5–14 mm long, densely glandular. Ray florets 10–13, golden yellow, tube 5.5–6.5 mm long, sparsely hairy, rays 10–17 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, 4–5-veined; disc florets yellow, corolla 8–10.2 mm long, tube expanded above the middle, glabrous, lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Achenes 3.5–4.2 mm long, ribbed, hairy; pappus 8.5–10.5 mm long, white.
