Hairy mercury
It is a perennial, dioica, densely tomentose, multicaule, of a silvery gray. Stems 30 to 70 cm high, erect, branched, woody at the base, persistent, foliose. Leaves 5-40 x 3-20 mm, subsessile, somewhat coriaceous, elliptical to elliptical-lanceolate, entire or weakly dentate, acute or obtuse, mucronate; with petiole 2-5 (7) mm; linear-lanceolate, hairy stipules.