Hemispherical subshrubs, 20-40 cm high, with many straight, generally unbranched, stems from a woody base; unevenly woolly-tomentose on stems and leaves, older growth sometimes becoming glabrous; leaves alternate, linear or filiform, 2-7 cm long and ca. 1 mm wide, crowded in the distal half or so of the stems; heads in flat-topped inflorescences, radiate; ca. 13 erect phyllaries in one series, 5-8 mm long, glabrous or very sparsely tomentose; phyllaries on most or all heads subtended by 3-8 ascending bracts (the calyculus) 1/5 to 1/2 the length of the phyllaries; ray florets ca. 8, yellow; disk florets 15-25, yellow; fruits (cypselae) cylindrical, glabrous, with a pappus of capillary bristles. Flowering August to October; probably also April and May in wet years.