A perennial plant growing to 0.6m. Alternate leaves are narrow and taper to a blunt point, 0.5 to 1 inch wide & 1.5 to 6 inches long. Stems and the undersides of the leaves are densely hairy. The upper surface of the leaves have fewer hairs. Flowerheads resemble small, yellow sunflowers. They are 0.75 to 1 inch in diameter with a cluster of disc flowers in the center surrounded by yellow ray flowers. Fruits are light brown in color and have feather-like hairs for wind dispersal.

Discutient and vulnerary (leaves); alterative, antibacterial, carminative, cholagogue, deobstruent, depurative, diuretic, expectorant, laxative, nervine, stomachic, tonic and vulnerary (flowers); discutient, resolvent and vulnerary (roots)

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The flowers are used internally in the treatment of bronchial complaints with profuse phlegm, asthma, nausea and vomiting, hiccups and flatulence.

Jing-Nuan Wu. An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica. P: 358, Oxford University Press, Inc.2005.