A perennial, ± pubescent, 10 – 30 cm tall, pleasantly aromatic herb with decumbent or ascending shoots from the base. Leaves sessile, oblong, 1.5 – 5 cm long, 2-3-pinnatisect into linear-subulate or filiform, ± hairy, mucronate ultimate segments. Peduncles 2 – 4 cm long, unthickened in fruit. Capitula radiate, 1.8 – 2.5 cm across. Phyllaries oblong, 3 – 5 mm long, 1.5 – 2 mm wide, obtuse with broad scarious margins, sparsely hairy on midrib. Receptacle conical, chaffy all over, paleae oblong, ± keeled, obtuse. Ray-florets female, fertile, ligules 7 – 10 mm long, white, occasionally absent. Disc-florets yellow, as long as paleae, corolla tube basally swollen, hairy. Cypselas obovoid, 1 – 1.5 mm long, smooth, with 3 faint striae on inner side, bald.