Cyanthillium cinereum var. cinereum

Erect herb mostly 20–120 cm high, branched above; stems ribbed, grey-pubescent to glabrescent. Leaves very variable, linear, elliptic to ovate, or ovate-rhombic, 1–7 cm long, 3–35 mm wide, acute to rounded, entire to irregularly lobed, upper surface dark green and scabrous, lower surface paler, villous to glabrescent; petiole 5–25 mm long, often winged (upper leaves often sessile). Capitula hemispherical, 5–10 mm diam.; involucral bracts 3- or 4-seriate, lanceolate, 1–5 mm long, acuminate, appressed-pubescent, pale purplish. Corollas 2.5–5.5 mm long, purple or white. Cypselas narrow-cylindric, 1–2 mm long, hardly ribbed, appressed-pubescent, glandular; pappus with outer series of flat minute bristles, inner series of silky bristles 4–5 mm long, more or less persistent. Flowers summer and autumn.