Perennial herb up to ±1 m high, stem from a creeping woody stock, crown brown silky-woolly, sparingly branched low down, slender, woody, brittle, often zigzag, thinly greyish white-woolly, leafy throughout. Leaves up to 100 x 20(-30) mm, smaller upwards, oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, lanceolate upwards, apex more or less acute, base broad, cordate-clasping, both surfaces greyish-white woolly, often drying fulvous, sometimes glabrescent, wool then clinging to the three prominent nerves. Heads homogamous, narrowly campanulate, ±6 x 3 mm, many in tight corymbose clusters corymbosely arranged. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, graded, closely imbricate, woolly, inner acute, glossy, lemon-yellow, about equalling flowers, not radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils about equalling ovaries. Flowers 8-15. Achenes 1 mm, faintly ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Up to 1 m high, creeping woody stock, crown brown silky woolly, stem ± branched low down, often zigzag, greyish white-woolly. Leaves up to 100 x 30 mm, smaller upwards, oblanceolate to lanceolate, apex acute, base broad, cordate-clasping, both surfaces greyish white-woolly, sometimes glabrescent. Capitula narrowly campanulate, ± 6 x 3 mm, many in tight clusters corymbosely arranged; involucral bracts in ± 6 series, outer woolly, inner glossy, lemon-yellow. Flowers 8-15. Flowering time Apr.-June. Pappus of many bristles.
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