Medium to tall plant reaching 1.5 metres. Stems erect, sparsely prickly. Basal leaves form a rosette in the first year and are oval narrowing to a long stalk, hairy and toothed. Stem leaves are oval, short stalked with a basal pair of leaflets, often unequal. Flowerheads globose, 1.5 to 2 cm, the flowers whitish and with long, narrowly triangular bracts.