Slender erect herb 45–60 cm tall; stems glabrous.. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 4.5–10 cm long, 0.3–0.6 cm wide, base attenuate, margins subentire, apex acute, shortly pubescent and glabrescent or glabrous.. Capitula 1–4, lax, discoid; stalks of the individual capitula slender, glabrous or almost so; involucre cylindrical, 4.5–6.5 mm long, 2 mm in diameter; phyllaries 8–9, 4–6 mm long, glabrous.. Disc florets white or very pale yellow; corolla 4.7–7.2 mm long, lobes 1.1–1.7 mm long.. Achenes 1.8–2.3 mm long, glabrous; pappus 2.3–3.5 mm long.
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