Brachythrix is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

[3] These are perennial herbs that produce new stems annually from a woody, sometimes woolly-tufted rootstock.

The herbage is hairy, with several different types of long and short hairs.

The flower heads are solitary, clustered, or arranged in cymes.

The fruit is an angular, gland-dotted cypsela with a pappus of scales or short barbed hairs.