Habit : A tall, erect, branched annual with stem and branches more or less woolly, white triate.
Leaves : Linear-lanceolate, sessile, acute, pubescent or villous on both sides, base tapering.
Flowers :
Solitary, axillary or two together.
Perianth woolly, about one-tenth inch across when spread out, divided about one-fourth the way down, segments hooded, mucronate, incurved; wing broadly ovate, scarious.