A bush 0.3-0.6 m [as '1-2 ft.'] high; branches ascending, opposite or whorled, stout, subspinulose with the closely-arranged old persistent leaf-bases, glabrous. Leaves crowded, closely imbricate, opposite, lanceolate-linear, acutely acuminate, 2-4 cm long, 3.5 mm broad, narrowly keeled below, flat and with a slightly impressed midrib above, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, sometimes minutely scabrid on the margins, often viscid. Heads 1-flowered, crowded into a dense capitate cluster 2-4 cm in diameter at the ends of the branches, narrow, compressed, about 1.8 cm long and 3 mm in diameter. Involucral bracts about 6-seriate, the outermost lanceolate, about 5 mm long, keeled, the innermost linear, 1.5 cm long, all acute, scaly-membranous, glabrous. Receptacle very small. Corolla 1 cm long, ribbed near the base, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 2 mm long. Anthers 4 mm long, acute. Achenes 4 mm long, shortly and densely villous with soft white hairs, glandular. Pappus about 9 mm long, whitish.
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Rigid shrub to 1 m, stems naked below. Leaves linear-lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, viscid, crowded at branch tips. Flower heads discoid, 1-flowered, in tight rounded clusters, yellow, 18 x 3 mm.
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