Annual, glandular-hairy, sticky herb with capillary branching, up to 25 cm in height. Branches are broadly spreading, often reddish, stipitate glandular and covered with weak, white, entangled hairs. Leaves are simple, alternate, entire, narrowly filiform with margins rolled backward and up to 20 × 1.5 mm. Heads are borne on rigid, capillary peduncles that are glabrous, shiny, yellowish-brown to reddish and sometimes stipitate-glandular. Involucre is scarious, glabrous, and glossy. Ray florets are very small and hardly exserted beyond the involucre. Fruits are slender, cylindrical, hairy achenes, 4-5 mm long.