Bedfordia are
shrubs or small
trees. ;
Stems and leaves: The young branches and lower surface of leaves and the whorl that surrounds the flower heads are densely covered with short matted and
stellate hairs. :Leaves grow first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along the branches; not paired. Leaf edges are entire or with irregular rounded scallops, and have leaf stalks. ;
Flowers: Heads in dense axillary branched cluster which is shorter than the leaves. Flower heads have a flat circular shape; and are surrounded by a hairy bract which is at base. Tubular, bisexual florets, scarcely longer than the bract. ;
Fruits and reproduction: Cylindrical, grooved and not hairy
achenes.
Pappus bristles are finely toothed and twice as long as achenes.
B. salicina intergrades with
B. arborescens (a tree) and
B. linearis (a shrub). ==Taxonomy==