Fine, white hairs cover the spindly, pale green leaves of this six-thums-tall plant. The plant seems to have no trunk with all of its leaves sprouting directly from the ground. They branch out in strange, stiff curlicues. The herb's flowers sprout straight up from the middle of the leaves. Though they originally start out as tiny purple flowers clustered tightly together on stiff stalks, the anthers soon elongate and split. When the petals of the flowers fall, the plant takes on a feather-like appearance.
