A densely whitish tomentose perennial, with several laxly to somewhat densely caespitose erect to ascending, 10 – 15 cm tall, simple or branched leafy stems from profusely branched fibrous-rooted rhizome. Leaves shortly petiolate, petiole winged towards the base, oblong, 2 – 5 (-6) cm long, (8-) 10 – 15 (-18) mm wide, white lanate on both sides, (1-) 2-pinnatifid to bipinnatipartite into oblong-lanceolate, ultimate segments absent or present, linear, mucronulate. Capitula solitary terminal, (3-) 4 – 6 cm across, on hairy, short peduncles. Involucre broadly hemispherical to napiform, (12-) 15 – 18 (-20) mm across, phyllaries 3-4-seriate, broadly brown scarious on margins, outer oblong-lanceolate, 6 – 8 mm long, acute, densely whitish tomentose outside and near the base, inner ones linear-oblong, ± scarious. Ray-florets 12-20, fertile, with linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, 12 – 15 (-20) x 3 – 4 (5) mm, pink to pinkish-white or fading to white. Disc-florets yellow, bisexual, with 3 – 4 mm long, 5-lobed corolla tube. Cypselas oblong-cylindrical, 3 – 4 mm long, sparsely hairy to glabrescent in the upper half, with sessile glands, 6-8-ribbed, pale-brown. Pappus as long as or twice the size of cypselas, bristles dilated above, whitish-yellow to purplish-brown.