Shrub; branches terete, obscurely striate, tawny villous-tomentose. Leaves alternate, membranous, more or less elliptical, apiculate, obtuse or suddenly narrowed at base, denticulate or repand-dentate, dark and puberulous or thinly pilose above, pale slightly tawny and tomentose beneath, ranging up to 4 in. long and 2 in. wide. Petioles about 1/2 in. long, villous-tomentous. Capitula about 12-flowered on unequal pedicels, in rather dense corymbose or rounded terminal panicles 3–6 in. wide. Bracts linear or filiform. Receptacle small convex glabrous. Scales of the involucre rather few, narrowly lanceolate, apiculate, villous; inner oblong-lanceolate nearly glabrous, lower at length spreading, somewhat smaller. Corolla gradually narrowed, sessile-glandular; lobes hair-tipped. Anther-base shortly produced. Achenes pale, 5-angled, with a few sparse short setæ between the angles. Pappus scabrous, reddish, duplex; outer setæ few, very short.