Subshrubs (flowering twigs dying back each year), (5–)15–60 cm (aromatic). Stems erect, sericeous-canescent. Leaves mostly cauline; blades (linear or linear-oblanceolate, 10–40 mm) entire or pinnately or subpalmately lobed, faces ± sericeous. Heads usually 3–12 in compact, corymbiform cymes (1–3 cm across), sometimes 1–2. Involucres 2.5–4(–6) mm. Phyllaries 10–12, canescent. ( Disc corollas ochroleucous, lobes villous.) Cypselae 1.8–1.9 mm (apices with irregular, thickened rims, faces glabrous or slightly gland-dotted). 2n = 18.