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Dwarf shrub, 40-100 mm high; very compact, cushion-forming; old stems gnarled, branches densely tufted. Leaves: upper leaves closely imbricate, appearing rosetted; blade narrowly elliptic or oblong, 5-40 x 1-4 mm, apex subacute to obtuse, both sides with thick, white indumentum, surface silky-smooth, drying like crumpled tissue paper, becoming felty. Heads discoid, campanulate, 5-7 x 8-12 mm, solitary or 2-12 on leafy peduncles, terminal. Involucral bracts in 4-6 series, loosely imbricate, base woolly, sometimes crimson on backs, tips opaque milk-white, acute, radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, scarcely honeycombed. Flowers: disc florets only, 20-38; corolla narrowly campanulate above, yellow; Dec., Jan. Fruit with cypsela hairy. Pappus of many scabrid bristles, bases cohering by patent cilia.
Very compact, cushion-forming shrublet, 40-100 mm high. Leaves 5-40 x 1-4 mm, narrowly elliptic or oblong, both sides with thick white indumentum, surface silky-smooth, drying-like crumpled tissue paper, becoming felty. Capitula homogamous, campanulate, 3-7 mm long, solitary or 2-12 on leafy peduncles, terminal; involucral bracts in 4-6 series, apex opaque milk-white, radiating. Receptacle ± honeycombed. Flowers 20-38, yellow. Flowering time Dec., Jan. Pappus of scabrid bristles, bases cohering by patent cilia. Cypselae 1.5 mm long, hairy.
