A shrub 0.9-1.5 m high. Branches erect, virgate, terete, striate. Leaves erect, sessile, half-clasping, lanceolate, acute, irregularly toothed, penninerved, eared at the base, glabrate above, more or less cobwebbed beneath and in the axils, about 6-7 cm. long and 1-5-2 cm broad, with margins narrowly revolute. Corymb branched, many-headed. Heads radiate, about 8 mm long, on multibracteated pedicels about 8-15 mm long. Involucre amply calycled, of about 12-14 linear, acuminate, membrane-edged bracts. Disk flowers about 30; rays about 10, yellow, 4-veined, about 5 mm long and 1.5 mm broad. Achenes striate, hispid on the striae.
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