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Annual or biennial herb 20–50 cm high with cottony branches. Leaves broadly elliptic to obovate, slightly dentate, appressed-cottony, glandular; lower leaves slender-petiolate, to 12 cm long; upper leaves subsessile, to 5 cm long. Capitula terminal, nodding, subtended by several small leaves; involucre campanulate, c. 2 cm diam.; outer bracts recurved, narrowly spathulate, c. 10 mm long, herbaceous, pubescent; inner bracts coriaceous with scarious denticulate margins, glabrous. Female florets multiseriate; corolla c. 2 mm long. Bisexual florets numerous; corolla c. 2.5 mm long with short tube and expanded limb; lobes glandular abaxially. Achene c. 5 mm long with densely glandular neck.
A herb. It keeps growing form year to year. It grows 50-100 cm tall. They are robust and have a white coating and hairs at the base. The lower leaves are thin and spoon shaped. They are 9-25 cm long by 4-6 cm wide. They are pale underneath. There are irregular double teeth along the edge.
