Perennial herb, 5–50 cm high, from a woody rootstock, the base of the stem woody and often black, or with several stems from an underground rootstock (and then with the most proximal leaves scale-like); distal stems terete, green, densely to sparsely white-pubescent to almost glabrous.. Leaves alternate, dense, dark green, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 8–35 mm long, 0.5–2(–5) mm wide, base as wide as the blade, margins entire or minutely serrulate by the setae, apex obtuse, glandular and pilose to almost glabrous.. Capitula solitary, 4–10 mm long, sweet-smelling; peduncles 3–13 cm long, pilose to pubescent, distally often glandular; phyllaries 3–4-seriate, green with paler margins, linear to oblanceolate, 2–7.5 mm long (the inner longest), 0.5–1 mm wide, with scarious and often laciniate margins, acute, sparsely to densely hairy, often glandular; receptacle naked.. Ray florets ± 25, with rays pale pink to pale mauve to white, linear, 5–10 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, the tube ± 3 mm long; disc florets numerous, yellow, the tube 2.5–3.8 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long, anthers 1.3–1.7 mm long; style 3.5–4.5 mm long, with triangular appendages.. Achenes brown, 1.3–2 mm long, 0.3–0.8 mm in diameter, sparsely to densely hairy, with a lateral rim; pappus setae white, many, to 3 mm long, barbellate, deciduous.. Fig. 99 (page 472).
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