Plants 30-50 cm tall. Leaves 1-2-pinnate; segments lanceolate, pinnatifid to pinnatisect. Peduncles up to 15 cm long. Involucre of long linear, hispid bracts. Rays 4-10, spreading, 1-1.5 cm long, hispid. Involucel of several linear, hispid bractlets. Fruit pedicels 1-3 mm long. Fruit oval to ovoid, 3-4 mm long; spines incurved; styles twice as long as the stylopodium. Inner seed face sulcate.

Distribution: Asia, Europe, North Africa, North & South America.

A common species found from the foothills to 2500 m in the Northern parts of W. Pakistan.