Erect-stemmed shrublet, up to 1 m tall, young branches densely felted. Leaves petiolate, spathulate and digitately lobed or divided (twice-divided), ±10 mm long, green, sparsely to densely hairy and glandular-punctate. Flowerheads discoid, globose, yellow, 5-8 mm diam., (2)3-10 in umbellate-corymbose clusters at branch tips of peduncles up to 30 mm long; involucral bracts ovate with dark margins. Pappus 1/2 as long as cypsela.
Much-branched shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Leaves alternate, petiolate, upper half pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, segments entire or 3-5-lobed, glabrous or faintly hairy, glandular-punctate. Capitula discoid, many together in terminal corymbs, pedunculate; involucral bracts oblong, obtuse. Florets yellow. Flowering time Feb.-May (Sept., Nov.). Pappus an auriculately-shaped scale. Cypselae obliquely wedge-shaped.