Herb of 1 ft. more or less; stems erect leafy, probably from a woody stock, conspicuously striate from the leaf-midribs, sparsely strigillose or glabrate; simple below, branching above. Leaves narrow-linear, acute, strongly revolute, glabrate, glandular-pitted with depressed median line above, midrib paler, conspicuous beneath, 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Capitula campanulate 3/4 in. long and broad, singly terminating the erect upper leafy branches; scales multi-seriate appressed obtuse muticous or mucronulate, with a subprominent midrib above, glabrate; outer and median scales elliptic-ovate to obovate, inner linear-oblong. Achenes hispid, obscurely 10-costate. Pappus duplex, sordid, outer very short, narrowly squamiform, inner often broadly setaceous barbellate.