Appressed grayish hairy, woody shrublet, with numerous, upright to suberect, up to 45 cm tall shoots from the suffrutescent, vertical, branched, c. 1 cm thick rootstock. Leaves densely appressed hairy and punctate glandulose; lower stem leaves petiolate to subsessile, 2 – 3 cm long, 1.5 – 2 cm broad, ± tripartite, primary segments irregularly palmatifid to pinnatifid into lanceolate, obtuse ultimate segments; upper leaves less dissected, uppermost lanceolate and entire. Capitula bracteate, heterogamous, 4 – 5 mm across, shortly peduncled, congested in corymbs at the terminii of shoots. Involucre cylindrical to ± hemispherical, phyllaries pubescent, outer narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, narrowly hyaline-scarious at apices, inner ones oblong-ovate, with broadly hyaline to light brown scarious apices. Receptacle hemispherical. Marginal flowers female, with narrow, c. 1 mm long, 2-3-dentate corolla tube. Disc-florets bisexual, with narrowly tubular, c. 2 mm long, 4-toothed corolla tube. Cypselas oblong, 1.2 – 1.5 mm long, angular.