A slender plant with densely white-woolly stems and leaves, the leaves with recurved margins. The flowers are carried in small clusters well above the leaves and have silvery outer bracts.

Good close up photographs required showing the all-round woolly hairs on the stem.

Sandy fields, dune-slacks and waste ground, but increasingly also in suburban pavements.

Flowers June to August.

An annual or biennial.

Probably an ancient introduction in the UK but became almost extinct, however, in recent years, it has appeared with startling regularity as a pavement weed in many parts of the UK.

Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland, but may be spreading into our area.