Leaves 9–16 x 1–4.5 cm., elliptic to oblanceolate, acute at the apex, narrowing below into a winged midrib to c. 3 cm. long, somewhat stem-clasping; margins sharply serrate; upper surfaces green and glabrous, lower surfaces white araneose-sericeous (the indumentum sometimes peeling off); ± markedly pinnately-nerved.
Involucres mostly 20–25 mm. long, 15–25 mm. in diam. in the upper part, broadly obconic-campanulate.
Similar to D. plantaginifolia but differing in leaf and phyllary characters.
Capitula stalked, 1–7 clustered in the leaf rosette.