Soft-wooded subshrub, branches long, loose, straggling or sprawling, glandular-pubescent, white-cobwebby as well, particularly on young parts, leafy. Leaves mostly 12-30 x 3-9 mm, smaller and more distant upwards, narrowly panduriform to oblong becoming lanceolate-acuminate upwards, apex obtuse to acute, apiculate, base broad, more or less cordate-clasping, margins scarcely revolute, upper surface glandular-pubescent, sometimes greyish-white cobwebby as well, lower white-woolly or cobwebby. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±13-20 mm long, nearly double that across the radiating bracts, solitary at the tips of long laxly leafy then bracteate branchlets. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, graded, imbricate, inner much exceeding flowers, acute, glossy, outer pale or rich chestnut brown sometimes with a rosy overcast, inner white sometimes tinged rose. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 219-483, 18-39 female, 188-445 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, barbellate above, bases not cohering. Flowering recorded between November and July, at its peak in April and May.
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Subshrub, up to 0.8 m high. Leaves 12-30 x 3-9 mm, smaller and distant upwards, narrowly panduriform to oblong becoming lanceolate-acuminate upwards, upper surface glandular-pubescent and greyish white cobwebby, lower white-woolly or cobwebby. Heads campanulate, 13-20 mm long, solitary at tips of branches. Flowers yellow; outer involucral bracts pale or rich chestnut-brown, sometimes with a rosy overcast, inner white, sometimes tinged rose.
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