E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial subshrub from a stout woody base; stems prostrate or ascending, clustered, white-woolly, 15-60 cm tall.

Leaves:
Stem leaves woolly above and below, sometimes greenish above, stalked, once to more commonly 3-parted, the segments oblong to broadly linear, 0.6-3.0 mm wide, 2-7 mm long, becoming reduced and entire upwards.

Flowers:
Heads disciform, numerous in a branched or narrow inflorescence; involucres hemispheric, 3.5-5.0 mm tall; involucral bracts with matted, woolly hairs and conspicuous brownish, thin, dry, papery margins; receptacles glabrous; female flowers fertile; disk flowers fertile.

Fruits:
Achenes glabrous.