Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high; stoloniferous, glabrous. Stems one or several, simple or sparsely branched, erect or ascending. Leaves alternate, sessile; ± confined to lower half of stem, blade broadly ovate to subrotund, up to 50 x 40 mm, apex acuminate or acute, mucronate, base cordate amplexicaul, usually clasping with basal lobes united, margins entire, leathery, prominently palmately veined, glabrous. Heads ± 40 mm in diameter, radiate, solitary, at tip of pedunculoid upper part of stem. Involucral bracts ± 3-seriate, equalling disc, narrowly ovate, dark-keeled, margins membranous, fimbriate, 3-5-veined, glabrous. Receptacle epaleate. Flowers: ray florets female, fertile, blue, mauve or pink, rarely white; disc florets bisexual, yellow; Oct.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela obovate to elliptic, densely hairy. Pappus biseriate, outer row of short scales, inner row of long scabrid bristles.
Glabrous, perennial herb, 0.05-0.60 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, on lower half of stem, broadly ovate to subrotund, cordate-amplexicaul, perfoliate, entire, veins prominent, palmate. Capitula radiate, solitary on upper part of stem; involucral bracts glabrous, 3-5-nervate. Ray florets blue or mauve, rarely white. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time Oct.-Feb. Pappus of outer short scales or bristles and inner long, scabrid bristles. Cypselae elliptic to obovate, long-hairy.