Perennials, 30-50 cm (caudices woody). Stems branched, pubescent, gland-dotted. Leaves mostly alternate, sometimes opposite; petioles 0-5 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases (venation raised, reticulate), elliptic to lanceolate or ovate to subdeltate, 20-70 × 7-20 mm, bases ± cuneate, margins crenate to serrate, apices acute, faces glandular-pubescent. Heads in paniculiform arrays. Peduncles 2-15 mm, tomentose, often gland-dotted. Involucres narrowly cylindric, 10-13 mm. Phyllaries 18-20 in 3-4(-5) series, green or purplish, 5-9-striate, unequal, margins scarious (apices acute, attenuate, obtuse, or nearly rounded); outer ovate (lengths evenly grading to inner, margins ciliate, faces pubescent, often gland-dotted), inner narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong (faces glabrous). Florets 9-24; corollas pale yellow-green, 6-8.2 mm. Cypselae 2.5-4 mm, densely pubescent; pappi of 32-43 white, mostly barbellate, sometimes subplumose, bristles.