Plants 30–150 cm. Stems simple or branched basally. Heads 30–100 in open, diffuse arrays, secund on primary branches longer than peduncles. Involucres 5–7(–8) mm. Phyllaries 18–24(–30), subulate to lanceolate (often broadly so), green zones broadly lanceolate, absent from proximal portion. Ray florets 21–28(–38) in (2–)3 series; laminae white (drying white or lavender), 1.3–1.7(–2) × 0.2–0.3 mm, shorter than pappi, drying in inward curls, rarely coiling. Disc florets (3–)7–14, 4–4.9 mm. Cypselae 1.5–2.6(–3) mm; pappi 4–5.1(–5.3) mm. 2n = 20.