General:
Perennial shrub; stems much branched, brittle, minutely to densely appressed-hairy, 10-35 cm tall.

Leaves:
Linear to linear-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, 3-5-nerved, glabrous or densely appressed-hairy and sticky.

Flowers:
Heads discoid, numerous in a compact terminal cluster; involucres 5-7 mm tall; involucral bracts about 15, strongly graduated, obtuse or abruptly sharp-pointed, mostly linear-oblong to lanceolate, glabrous, papery; disk flowers usually 5, 4.5-7 mm long, yellow.

Fruits:
Achenes long-hairy; pappus dull to brownish-white.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia