It is a perennial plant, about 50 cm, erect, herbaceous except the base which is woody. It has or may have leaves at the base, the others are alternate, serrate or doubly serrate, without thorns, attached to the whitish stem and upright, showing the underside of the leaf. Small yellow flowers with yellow ligule, without scales on the receptacle, which are grouped forming small heterogamous capitula, these in turn form concave corymbs, of great beauty and pleasant smell with more than 15 capitula. The fruit is an achene, obovate and compressed, without pappus. It multiplies by seeds and by division of bushes.