Biennial; stems 15-40 cm long, densely white woolly tomentose. Leaves thin; lower leaves smaller than median cauline leaves; cauline leaves spatulate, 2-6×4-12 cm, apex rounded, mucronulate, base angular, narrowed, sessile, decurrent, margins entire, white woolly on both surfaces. Heads numerous, densely aggregated in terminal corymbs. Involucre globose-campanulate, 3×3.5 mm, bracts 3-seriate, pale yellow, outer ones shorter, broadly ovate, inner ones oblong, apex obtuse. Outer florets many, 1.75 mm long; central florets 5-10, corolla 2 mm long. Achenes oblong, compressed, 0.5 mm long, papillose. Pappus white, ca. 2 mm long, bristles deciduous separately.

Eastern and southern Asia to Australia. Taiwan, a weed of wastelands and cultivated fields, seasides to 2,000 m, common.

TAIPEI: Nankang, Peng 12632; Chutzuhu, Peng 12663. ILAN: Yuanyanghu, Huang 152; Fenniaolin, Peng 13766. TAOYUAN: Paling, Peng 11013. HSINCHU: Hengshan, Peng 13674. MIAOLI: Taian, Lin 544; Kuanwu, Chen 829. TAICHUNG: Taya, Wang 1474; Szuyuan, Liu 247. NANTOU: Fenghuangshan, Chen 250; Mayfeng, Peng 9065. CHIAYI: Longmei to Tsaoshan, Peng 10052; Chuchi, Lungyunshanchuang, Wang 739. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Tienchih, Wang 1142. PINGTUNG: Wutai, Lin 307; Tahan Forest Road, Hsiao 1020. TAITUNG: Taiyuanhsiaku, Chen 436; Haituan, Peng 11723. HUALIEN: Hsioulin, Leu 81.