Annual herb; stems 5–30 cm long, prostrate but distally erect, white-tomentose. Leaves oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, 1–7 cm long, 0.2–0.8 cm wide, base attenuate but half-clasping the stem, apex acute or obtuse, thinly white- or grey-tomentose on both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent. Capitula 2–3 mm long, in small clustered racemes to 3 cm long; stalks of individual capitula 1–5 mm long, tomentose; receptacle flat, shortly honeycombed; phyllaries in 3 series, lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm long, acute, lamina translucent. Outer florets pale yellow, 140–220, tube filiform, 1–1.2 mm long, minutely toothed, style 1.1–1.3 mm long; inner florets pale yellow, 4–6, tube narrowly infundibuliform, 0.9–1.2 mm long, lobes 0.2 mm long and pilose, anthers ± 0.5 mm long, style 1–1.3 mm long with truncate branches. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.35–0.5 mm long, glabrous; pappus 1–1.5 mm long, barbellate, of inner florets distally almost subplumose.