Acourtia microcephala is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name sacapellote.

[2][3][4][5] Acourtia microcephala is a bushy perennial herb producing several erect stems from a woody caudex up to about 1.5 meters in maximum height.

The stems branch toward the ends and are densely foliated in toothed, wavy-edged, glandular leaves 2 to 15 centimeters long.

Each disc floret has two lips, the outer of which is long, flat, and usually bright pink, and easily mistaken for a ligule.

The fruit is a glandular achene a few millimeters long which has a pappus of bristles up to a centimeter in length.