General: Perennial herb from a short, stout rhizome; stems erect, stout, clustered, 0.5-1.5 m tall
Leaves: Stem leaves numerous, white- to grey-woolly beneath, green and glabrous or glabrate on the upper side, broadly lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, entire or toothed or coarsely lobed below, 8-15 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, reduced upwards.
Flowers: Heads disciform, numerous in a branched, elongate inflorescence; involucres oblong or nearly egg-shaped, 3-4 mm tall; involucral bracts broadly lanceolate, finely woolly-hairy or glabrate, yellowish-green and shiny; receptacles glabrous; female flowers 3-7; disk flowers 2-8.
