Cotyledons ovate to spatulate and scurfy on the lower surface. First several rosette leaves elliptic to oblanceolate and covered with a white, powdery bloom. Subsequent rosette leaves irregularly 1-pinnately lobed with pronounced wavy margins. Stems erect, openly branched, leafy , and mostly covered with cobwebby gray hairs. Upper stem leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear , entire or toothed, and 1-3 cm long.
Leaves lack hairs or are covered with short to medium interwoven hairs.
Slender creeping rhizomes branch frequently at various depths forming an extensive vertical and horizontal root system . Rhizomes covered with alternate, small, narrow, appressed, clasping scale leaves. Each scale leaf has a bud in its axil capable of producing a new shoot. Mature rhizomes dark brown to black . Young rhizomes paler, with longer, less appressed scale leaves.