Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high; tufts of stems from woody stock, often branching from near base, leafy, glandular-pubescent, viscid, whole plant with strong sweet scent. Leaves: blade of basal leaves pinnatifid, up to 200 x 40 mm, 1/3 of this petiolar, lobes ± oblong, margins coarsely toothed or lobed; stem leaves similar, sessile, often ear-clasping; glandular-pubescent. Heads discoid, 10 x 5 mm, few to many in spreading, corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts 8-12, 6-8 mm long; glandular-pubescent; calyculus bracts very few, short. Flowers: disc florets only, pale mauve, white or deep yellow; Dec., Jan., Apr. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hispid between ribs.
Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Radical leaves glandular-pubescent, pinnatifid, lobes ± oblong, margins coarsely toothed or lobed, petiolate. Heads discoid, involucral bracts 8-12, 6-8 mm long. Achenes hispid between ribs. Flowers pale mauve, white or deep yellow.