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Chaptalia nutans is a stemless perennial herb of the Asteraceae forming a basal rosette of leaves. The leaves are oblanceolate to spatulate, with the upper surface green and nearly hairless and the lower surface densely covered in white woolly tomentum, the margins entire to shallowly toothed and often somewhat rolled under. From the centre of the rosette arises a single slender, leafless, woolly scape that may exceed thirty centimetres; in bud and after flowering it characteristically nods, becoming erect at anthesis, a habit reflected in the epithet nutans. The solitary head bears whitish to pinkish ray florets and a central disc, and produces achenes tipped with a long, narrow beak and a pappus of fine bristles for wind dispersal. Native and widespread through the warmer parts of the Americas, from the southern United States through Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and much of South America, it grows in disturbed ground, lawns, pastures, and open woodland.