The fruit is a greenish achene with seeds bearing feathery anemophilous filaments. The achenes are beaked and some species have feathery hairs attached to them. Stigma can vary from long and slender to globe shaped to feathery. Stigmas can vary from long and slender to globe-shaped to feathery. The antennae are light brown and feathery. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves. The males have feathery antennae versus the thin antennae of females. Schnauzers have distinctive beards and long, feathery eyebrows. The middle part has bristles along its sides and also pairs of feathery gills. Moth antennae are usually feathery with no ball on the end. Males can be differentiated from females in having large palps and feathery antennae. The leaves are long, bipinnate or tripinnate, almost feathery, and arranged spirally on the stems. The panicles are both slightly feathery and a bit one-sided. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black. The grey-green leaves are small, narrow and feathery.