Shrub, (40–) 50–200 cm tall or more, branches numerous, densely leafy, whitish to greyish pubescent, intermixed with glands. Basal leaves withering at anthesis, cauline leaves sessile to subsessile, 2.5 – 10 (–16) cm long, 0.5 – 2.5 (–3) cm wide, elliptic – lanceolate, rarely ovate, acute–acuminate, cuneate at the base, entire or finely serrate, ± villose above, greyish–whitish tomentose beneath, intermixed with shiny glands or not. Capitula numerous, ca 6 mm across, in terminal corymbs, peduncle 1.5–2.5 cm long, slender. Involucre campanulate, 5–6 mm in diameter. Phyllaries 3–4 seriate, imbricate, sparsely pubescent or  white tomentose at base, acute, scarious, distally ciliate, outer ones ovate–lanceolate, 1.5– 2.5 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, apically green – purplish, inner ones  lanceolate or linear–lanceolate, 3 – 4.5 mn long, ca 0.5 mm wide. Ray florets 10 – 30, ligules white, pink or purple, 4 – 5 mm long, 0.5–1.1 mm wide, tube ca 2.5 mm long. Disc florets yellow, 4–5 mm long, limb 2–3 mm long, sparsely hairy, lobes 1–2 mm long, reflexed and triangular. Style appendages triangular. Cypselas brown, obovoid, ca 2 mm long, many ribbed, strigillose, often glandular at apex. Pappus 3–seriate, brownish or reddish, outer bristles ca 1 mm long, shorter, middle ones 2–3.5 mm long, innermost series longer, upto 6 mm long.