Perennial, 15 – 60 (-80) cm tall herb, with simple or branched, glabrous or arachnoid hairy upper part, twigs from a creeping rhizome upright. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, up to 16 (-20) x 1.5 – 2 cm, simple or sometimes pinnatisect, denticulate-margined, glabrous and glaucous, lower and median stem leaves narrowed into a winged petiole, upper young leaves hairy below, linear to oblong, auricles rounded, ± denticulate. Capitula numerous-flowered, 1.5 – 2.5 cm across, on glabrous or eglandular white hairy peduncles. Involucre campanulate, 8 – 12 x (8-) 10 – 15, white tomentose at base. Phyllaries 27, 3-seriate, outer narrowly lancoelate to ovate, inner onesoblong-lanceolate, 5 – 15 mm long, membranous-margined, acute or ± obtuse. Florets with c. 6 mm long corolla tube and c. 12 mm long yellow ligules. Cypselas yellowish or straw-colored,oblong- elliptic, sometimes oblong, 2 – 3 x 1 – 1.5 mm, thickly ribbed on each side, weakly rugose between the ribs or smooth, with thick margin. Pappus cottony, setae 0.6 – 1 cm long, caducous.