Small annual herb, stems 10-100 mm long, usually many from the crown, simple or branched, prostrate or decumbent, sometimes few or solitary and then suberect, loosely white-woolly, leafy particularly under the heads. Leaves 2-10 x 0.5-1 mm, linear-oblong, obtuse to acute, conspicuously white-mucronate, margins more or less involute, both surfaces thinly and loosely white-woolly. Heads cylindric-campanulate, c. 3 x 1.5-2 mm, solitary or in small leafy cymose clusters, these frequently crowded into lateral and terminal glomerules. Involucral bracts in 3 series, surrounding both female and hermaphrodite flowers, sharply acute to acuminate, more or less translucent, whitish or pale straw-colour, glabrous. Flowers 10-19; 5-10 female, corollas filiform, 5-10 hermaphrodite, corollas cylindric, female slightly outnumbering hermaphrodite or vice versa, all fertile. Achenes 0.75 mm long, hairy. Pappus present on both female and hermaphrodite flowers, patent intermingling cilia at base, shaft naked, tip shortly plumose. Probably appears after good rains and flowers can be found in any month.
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Annual, with prostrate or decumbent, occasionally suberect stems, 10-100 mm long. Leaves alternate, linear-oblong, obtuse to acute, conspicuously white-mucronate, margins rolled in, thinly white-woolly. Flowerheads very small, disciform, solitary or crowded together in leaf axils or terminally; involucral bracts whitish or straw-coloured, glabrous; outer florets female, filiform, 5-10; bisexual florets 5-10. Cypselas hairy; pappus of bristles with naked shaft and plumose tips.
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