An erect herb up to 120 cm tall, usually branched and with a strong taproot, stems slightly hairy to glabrous. Leaves in a radical rosette and cauline, oblong-obovate to oblong-lanceolate, lower ones 5-25 cm x 1-7 cm, upper ones smaller. Heads clustered in the axil of small cauline leaves, combined into a long, lax terminal spike, involucral bracts 2-seriate, the outer ones shorter than inner ones; flowers with corolla about 7 mm long, white. Fruit 6-7 mm long with pappus bristles unequal, the 2 largest sigmoid near the apex.

Used as a vulnerary (leaves)

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

The leaves are used topically to treat eczema.