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Achenes 1.5–2 mm. long, turbinate, 4–5-ribbed, hispid, densely so at the base and often on the ribs, horizontally wrinkled between the ribs; outer pappus of numerous grey overlapping narrowly lanceolate scales as long as or shorter than the achene body; inner pappus of grey barbellate setae up to c. 6 mm. long.
Phyllaries numerous, pungent-tipped and spreading-pilose to sericeous, ciliate on margins where exposed; the outer phyllaries c. 4 mm. long, linear-lanceolate; the inner 7–10 mm. long, lanceolate.
Stems erect, densely strigose or tomentose, sometimes interspersed with a few brownish patent multicellular shaggy hairs on the capitula stalks.
Capitula 1–2 at the ends of branches, or ± cymose at the stem apex, the central capitulum overtopped by lateral capitula.
Corollas pale-mauve or whitish, c. 8 mm. long, narrowly infundibuliform, hispidulous on the lobes, glandular.
A perennial herb up to c. 40 cm. tall, from a thickened vertical rootstock with numerous fibrous roots.
Receptacle deeply alveolate, alveolae walls produced into teeth often equalling achene in length.
Involucres up to c. 10 mm. long, broadly campanulate to widely-spreading.
