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Prostrate, perennial herb, 10–15 cm high, with shoots rooting at nodes. Leaves in dense basal rosette, and tufted at nodes, oblanceolate, 5–20 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, pinnatisect, with 2–7 pairs of irregularly toothed lobes, sparsely hairy to becoming glabrous above, densely white-hairy beneath. Capitula solitary, terminal, 2.5–4 cm diam.; peduncles erect, 5–30 cm long, glandular-hairy; involucre hemispherical, 4–5-seriate, 1–1.5 cm across; outermost bracts ovate, with patent, awl-shaped apices; inner ones broadly lanceolate, 5–10 mm long, with scarious, black or purple edges. Ray florets 15–20; ligule 12–20 mm long, dorsally yellow, ventrally green or brownish. Disc florets yellow. Achenes c. 2 mm long, ±hairy, mostly 5-ribbed, furrowed/wrinkled. Pappus absent.
Like A. calendula but perennial, sprawling and rooting at nodes, softly hairy, leaves auriculate below, involucral bracts white-tipped, cypselas softly hairy, pappus wanting.
Like A. calendula but perennial, sprawling and rooting at nodes, softly hairy, leaves auriculate below, involucral bracts white-tipped. Achenes silky.
