An annual plant, taprooted or fibrous-rooted. Stems erect, usually branched from bases, sometimes simple, closely to loosely tomentose. Leaf blades oblanceolate, 1–5 cm × 1–3 mm. Bracts subtending heads linear, oblanceolate, or obovate, 5–15 × 1–2 mm, usually surpassing glomerules. Heads borne singly or in terminal, capitate glomerules, sometimes in axillary glomerules. Involucres 2–4 mm. Phyllaries brownish, bases woolly, inner narrowly triangular with whitish, acute apices. |