Perennial shrublet, about 40 cm tall. Older branches woody; young branches and leaves glabrescent to cowebby-pubescent. Lower leaves pinnately lobed; cauline narrow-linear, denticulate to entire. Heads solitary, topping the branches, yellow, about 20 mm across, ovoid. Involucral bracts leathery, cowebby around margins, ending in a short curved spine about 15 mm long each and usually with a basal pair of spinules.