Much-branched shrub, up to 0.3 m high. Leaves opposite to alternate, obovate, subsessile to petiolate, entire, shortly hairy and glandular. Capitula radiate, very small, solitary; peduncle hairy and glandular below capitulum; involucral bracts in 3 or 4 rows, imbricate, with resin striae, outer ones shortly hairy and glandular. Ray florets white or blue. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time Sept., Oct. Pappus of barbellate bristles, present in both ray and disc florets. Cypselae small, obovate, brownish, densely long-hairy.
Like F. erigeroides but leaves distinctly petiolate, always 1-veined.