Perennial, densely branched herb, usually with a hemispherical appearance. Branches are intricate, white-woolly, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves are sessile and somewhat amplexicaul, narrowly linear, acute to obtuse, undulate to rarely toothed, woolly-tomentose on both surfaces or becoming glabrescent, 0.5–3 cm long and 0.15–0.3 cm wide. Heads are solitary, yellow, radiate, heterogamous and 0.5–1 cm across. Ray florets are 1-seriate and as long as the disc florets. Fruits are brown, glabrous achenes, 0.8–0.9 mm long. Pappus are composed of 7–10 hairs, 2–4 mm long, falling off.