生活型：Herbaceous perennial subshrubs ；

株：up to 60 cm tall；

茎：Few, about 1 cm thick, evergreen, rather soft, fleshy, weak, 60(-90) long ascending or sprawling, glaucous green, covered in leaf-scars.

叶：Crowded in terminal rosetes, 9(-15) long, 3-5(-7) cm wide, obovate to oblanceolate, narrowing downwards to winged base, and varied outline from entire to pinnatifid with prominent triangular pointed teeth in the upper half. Leaf colour varies from dull green-grey to bluish-grey with purpling on the underside and margins.

花：Flower stalk, thick, sparingly-forked ending the shoots, 10-30 cm or more cm long. Capitula (flower-heads) few, 2-2.5(-3) cm across when fully open, nodding but later erect. Phyllaries (involucral bracts) 7-10 very unequal in width, membrane-edged, up to 2 cm long. Ray florets none. Disc florets 30 to 60, rich orange-red, scarlet or cerise. Pappus 10-12 mm long.