Shrubby perennial herb 10–120 cm high; stem much branched, white-tomentose to slightly arachnoid and glabrescent.. Leaves greyish green to silvery white, sessile, oblanceolate-linear, linear, narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, 2.8–8 cm long, 0.25–6 cm wide (excluding lobes when present), auriculate and semi-amplexicaul at the base, margins remotely serrulate or denticulate to narrowly pinnately paucilobulate, apex obtuse to acute and apiculate, thinly arachnoid to glabrous above, arachnoid-tomentose (except sometimes for midrib) beneath.. Capitula radiate, erect in short-to long-stalked usually lax terminal corymbs; stalks of the individual capitula lanate to slightly arachnoid-glabrescent; involucre cylindrical or suburceolate-campanulate, 5–7 mm long, 3–5 mm in diameter, lanate or arachnoid in the lower half or at the base; bracts of calyculus 8–18, lanceolate, 1–2.5 mm long, acute, imbricate, dark-tipped; phyllaries 10–14 or 18–22, 4–6 mm long, glabrous, dark-tipped.. Ray florets 12–15, bright yellow, tube 2.5–3 mm long, hairy or sparsely so, rays 5–7 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, 4-veined; disc florets yellow or orange, corolla 4.5–6 mm long, slightly expanded above the middle, glabrous, lobes 0.5–0.7 mm long.. Achenes 2–2.8 mm long, hairy; pappus 4–5.5 mm long.
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