The species is named after a German botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.

The leaves are whitish and tomentose, flat or linear prolonged, a bit acute, smooth-edged 0.2–3 centimeters long and 1–9 millimeters wide.

The flowers are white, 1.5–2.2 centimeters in diameter, situated in cymes on top of the sprout.

The Crimea is the unique natural habitat of this plant.

It is preserved and grown on the territory of such environmental facilities as the Crimean Nature Reserve, the Yalta Mountain-Forest Nature Reserve, and the Qarabiy yayla mountain range.