Robust, perennial herb, ca 20 cm tall. Stem stout, reddish, sparsely leafy, branches decumbent – ascending, bending almost at the right angles at the base, covered with long appressed white strigose hairs, usually somewhat glandular, on the upper part.  Leaves sessile, linear– oblanceolate, 1–2  (–3.5) cm long, 1–5 mm wide, entire, ciliate – strigose, acute–obtuse, covered with appressed white hairs on either side, mixed with sessile glands, mid vein prominently raised on the dorsal side. Capitula solitary, terminal, 1.5–1.8 cm across. Involucre hemispherical. Phyllaries 2–seriate, dorsally strigose, mixed with stipitate glands, acute–acuminate, outer ones ± foliar, 4–6 cm long, 1–1.8 cm wide, lanceolate, inner ones 7–8 mm long, 0.8–1.2 mm wide, lanceolate –linear, margins broadly scarious, compared to outer ones, ciliate, purplish at the apex. Ray florets white–purplish, 10–12 mm long, ca 2 mm wide. Disc florets yellow, 4.5–5 mm long, limb 3.5–4 mm long; lobes 5, unequal,  longer lobe  ca 1 mm long, other 4 lobes ca 0.6 mm long, hairy. Cypselas heteromorphic, compressed, weakly 2–ribbed, long strigose, glandular, hilum basal–subbasal; ray cypselas ca 3 mm long, ca 1.5 mm wide, obovate, straw–golden colored, disc cypselas ca 2 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide, brown, narrowly obovoid, 1.5–2 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide.  Pappus biseriate, reddish brown, 4–5 mm long.