Woody herb or shub 0.9-4.5 m high, much-branched, with several virgate stems; branches at first densely white-tomentose with short T-shaped hairs, older stems with rough grey longitudinally fissured bark. Leaves aromatic, grey-green, obovate, 0.8-4 cm long, 0.3-1.7 cm wide, base cuneate or attenuate, margins obscurely sinuate-denticulate in upper part, apex rounded, apiculate, finely shortly pubescent, densely glandular with sunken glands. Capitula numerous in rather dense compound corymbiform cymes; involucre cylindrical to obconic, 3-5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter at flowering time; phyllaries 4-seriate, pale green, darker green centrally towards the apex, ovate to elliptic, 1-4.7 mm long, obtuse or the inner sometimes acute, apiculate, ciliate on margins. Flowers fragrant; corolla white, tube 3.9-4.7 mm long, lobes 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous. Achenes strongly 4-6-ribbed, 2-2.9 mm long, short ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrowly lanceolate laciniate scales, 0.5-1.2 mm long, inner pappus white, 3.5-5.5 mm long.