Perennial, much and intricately branched, clumped shrublet, usually up to 75 cm in height but sometimes taller, with young branches fleecy, white-tomentose. Leaves are alternate and sessile, narrow-linear to narrow-ovate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, remotely dentate to entire and summer-deciduous, up to 30 × 2.3 mm. Heads are heterogamous, solitary, yellow, and terminal on many branches, measuring up to 2.5 mm across. Involucral bracts are hard, glabrous, and lanceolate. Fruits are glabrous, four-ribbed achenes about 2.5 mm long, partially enclosed by individual bracts.