Erect, strongly aromatic perennial herb, 6–40 cm tall, sometimes reaching 60 cm, with crisped, hairy branches. Leaves are sessile and auriculate, entire to undulate, crinkled, glandular, and woolly, 1–5 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm wide. Heads are terminal, radiate, heterogamous, yellow, and 1–2 cm across, sometimes up to 3 cm and borne on peduncles 2–8 mm long. Ray florets are yellowish and 5–10 mm long, while disc florets are yellowish and 5–7 mm long. Fruits are pale achenes, truncate-cylindrical, 10-ribbed and sparsely hairy. The inner pappus is composed of 14–20 bristles, 2–3 mm long.