Shrubby, 2 ft. or more high. Branches terete, slightly striate, shortly and closely tawny-tomentose. Leaves alternate, submembranous, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, cuneately narrowed into the petiole, serrulate, upper surface scabrid, lower pubescenttomentose, ranging to 5 in. long by 1 3/4 in. wide; petioles ranging to 1/2 in., pubescent-tomentose, somewhat dilated and clasping at base. Capitula 1/2 in. diameter, many-flowered, on pubescent-tomentose pedicels 0– 1/3 in. long, in rather dense terminal corymbs 2–10 in. diam. Bracts on the pedicels small. Scales of the campanulate involucre lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, apiculate, pubescent and purplish out-side, glabrous inside, margins scarious, outer 1/10, inner 5/16 in. long. Receptacle naked. Corolla gradually narrowed, puberulous. Anther-base shortly obtusely produced. Achenes strongly (9-) 10-striate, hispid. Pappus duplex, barbellate, pale reddish brown; inner deciduous; outer much shorter.
