Annual, up to 150 mm tall, stems short or absent. Leaves petiolate, elliptic-obovate to lyrate-pinnatifid, glabrescent to softly hairy above, felted below. Involucre base rounded; outer involucral bracts with shortly reflexed apex, softly hairy. Ray floret limb yellow; disc florets hermaphrodite, yellow or dark. Cypsela obovoid-ellipsoid, bilaterally flattened, 1 broad obovate-elliptic abaxial cavity, wings shortly dentate, pubescent, basal ring of rigid hairs shorter or longer than cypsela; pappus biseriate, inner whorl of 8 scales much longer than outer whorl, outer whorl of usually 6 (rarely 8) scales.
Thinly woolly, tufted annual to 20 cm. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, discolorous, grey-felted beneath, roughly hairy above. Flower heads radiate, solitary, disc dark or yellow with yellow rays, ray florets sterile; bracts with rudimentary tail. Achenes with single, undulate cavity.