Herbs, 12-40 cm tall; stems erect, unbranched or branched from base, purplish, ± densely white sericeous. Lower and middle stem leaves sessile; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, 1.5-3 × 0.5-1 cm, both surfaces green, glabrous, sometimes with sessile glands, pectinately pinnatisect; segments linear-subulate, somewhat rigid. Upper stem leaves to below synflorescence similar, but smaller. Synflorescence of short axillary spikes grouped in-to a slender, leafy panicle. Capitula many, rather small, sessile. Involucres ovoid or broadly ovoid, 2.5-3 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 or 4 rows, abaxially glabrous, scarious margin broad, outer ones somewhat short, inner ones rather narrow. Marginal female florets 3 or 4, fertile, narrowly tubular, without apical teeth. Disk florets tubular, 5-lobed, of two kinds: outer bisexual, inner completely male with reduced ovaries. Achenes brown, elliptic, 1.2-1.5 mm, somewhat compressed.
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A herb. It grows 12-40 cm tall. The stems are purplish with white hairs. The lower leaves do not have stalks. The leaves are oblong and 2-3 cm long by 1 cm wide. They are divided into narrow segments. The flowers are in several small heads. The seeds are brown, narrowly oval and 1.5 mm long.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in deserts, gravelly places and wastelands between 1,300-3,400 m above sea level.
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