A canescent biennial with a thick fleshy rootstock and sulcate branched stems. Leaves are pinnatifid to pinnatisect with dentate mucronate lobes and petiolate basal leaves. Capitulum is single or paired at the tips of branches with broadly ovoid involucre, purplish spines at the base and basal spinules or toothed margins.
Corollas are dirty yellow and anthers are purple-brown in color. Fruit is an ellipsoid-cylindrical, glabrous brownish, lustrous achene, truncate at the apex.
Mediterranean region.
Libya, Egypt.
Roadsides, edges of cultivation.
Biennial.
