Annual, up to 200 mm tall, stems short or absent. Leaves petiolate, obovate to lyrate-pinnatisect, softly hairy to glabrescent above, densely felted below, margins revolute. Involucre base truncate; outer involucral bracts with apex erect, densely woolly-hairy. Ray florets female, yellow; disc florets hermaphrodite, yellow. Cypselas dimorphic, obovoid-obconical, 2 dentate abaxial wings; ray cypsela glabrous; pappus absent; disc cypsela minutely pubescent, with basal ring of rigid hairs; pappus of 2 whorls each of 8 scales, inner whorl much longer than outer whorl and similar length to cypsela.