Soft-wooded subshrub, stock stout, up to 20 mm diam., woody, crowned with one or several leaf rosettes, flowering stems several, lateral to the rosettes, erect, up to 600 mm, simple below the compound inflorescence, thickly and loosely white woolly, closely leafy. Radical leaves up to 150 x 40 mm, oblong-lanceolate, apex subacute, margins somewhat undulate; cauline leaves mostly 35-50 x (15-)20-40 mm, smaller on the inflorescence branches, ovate or broadly lanceolate, apex very obtuse to subacute, base broad, cordate-clasping, all leaves with both surfaces loosely greyish-white woolly. Heads heterogamous, 10-14 mm long, 20-30 mm across the radiating bracts, depressed-globose, 2 to several in a leafy open corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ±9 series, graded, imbricate, inner much exceeding the flowers, glossy, bright yellow, outer overlaid palest brown outside. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±700-1000, 140 female, 560-830 homogamous. Achenes ±1 mm long, barrel-shaped, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips barbellate, shaft scabrid, bases with minute patent cilia, cohering or not.
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Subshrub, up to 0.6 m high. Radical leaves up to 150 x 40 mm, oblong-lanceolate; cauline leaves 35-50 x (15-)20-40 mm, ovate or broadly lanceolate, base cordate-clasping, all leaves with both surfaces loosely greyish white woolly. Heads depressed-globose, 10-14 mm long, 2-several in leafy open corymbose panicle. Flowers with involucral bracts yellow, outer overlaid palest brown outside.
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