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Annual, occasionally perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile; blade linear, linear-obovate or ovate-oblong, often folded lengthwise, up to 40 x 4 mm, apex acute, base of lower leaves attenuate, base of upper leaves clasping, margins entire, scabrid-pubescent, viscid. Heads disciform, small, ± 2 mm in diameter, crowded in corymbose clusters. Involucral bracts biseriate, minutely glandular. Flowers: outer female florets 3-or 4-toothed, in several series; disc florets bisexual; yellow; Dec.-Mar. Fruit with cypsela elliptic, slightly compressed, faintly ribbed, thinly hairy, gland-dotted. Pappus uniseriate, of few (up to ± 10) bristles.
Stiffly erect, viscid, annual, occasionally perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves alternate, entire, linear, linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, often folded lengthwise, apex acute, scabrid hairy and viscid. Capitula disciform, crowded in corymbose clusters; involucral bracts in 2 rows, minutely glandular. Outer florets 3-or 4-toothed, in 2-many rows. Disc florets bright yellow. Flowering time Jan.-Mar. Pappus of few barbellate bristles. Cypselae elliptic, slightly compressed, faintly ribbed, thinly hairy.
Herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves linear, linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, often folded lengthwise, apex acute. Outer flowers 3-or 4-toothed. Pappus bristles few (up to 10). Flowers yellow.
