A low, rhizomatous groundcover with finely divided leaves to approximately 2 cm long. It grows to about 15 cm in height. Pale lilac daisy flowers are produced above the foliage on fine stems. A single plant in open ground may spread approximately 50cm in diameter.

A softly hairy herb. Variable, commonly sold in nurseries. Strikingly different provenances may be sold in nurseries, one popular one with vigorous, robust growth habit appear to originate form the summit of Mt William in Gariwerd (the Grampians).
The forms on the Victorian VOlcanic Plains with narrow leaves are considered to form a separate species which is still to be described called Chrysocephalum sp. 1

Slender upright annual or short-lived perennial with narrow whitish, stem-clasping leaves.
Flowerheads (gathered in composite capitula) arranged in a corymb. Individual capitula lack the showy bracts of a typical 'daisy' flower.
Fruit have fluffy hairs 'pappus' which allow them to drift on the wind.

A species of the Asteraceae family, Common Sneezeweed has small globular green-cream flowerheads, and small teethed leaves. When crushed, the leaves exude a pungent sickly sweet smell.