Herbs, perennial, 25-50 cm tall, with small woody rootstock. Stems many, slender, unbranched, erect or ascending, thinly silvery gray tomentose. Stem leaves ca. 2 × 1.5 cm, both surfaces gray tomentulose, 3-pinnatisect; ultimate segments linear, 2-3 × 0.5-0.6 mm. Distal leaves less dissected, those subtending synflorescence linear, ca. 1 cm. Synflorescence a terminal flat-topped panicle; peduncles to 1.4 cm, grayish white. Immature capitula 3-4 mm in diam. Outer phyllaries linear or lanceolate, 2-3 mm, grayish white tomentulose; middle and inner ones lanceolate or elliptic, abaxially ± tomentulose, adaxially straw-colored scarious.
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