Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall, branches with dense, spreading, white hairs. Leaves opposite, lanceolate to obovate, with long, spreading hairs. Flowerheads radiate, relatively large, on peduncles with long, spreading hairs or glandular-pubescent; involucral bracts in 2 equally long rows; ray florets ivory-white; disc florets yellow. Cypselas relatively small, shortly hairy.
Diffuse, villous annual to 35 cm. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, margins revolute, sometimes slightly toothed. Flower heads radiate, solitary, yellow with white rays.