Sprawling perennial to 30 cm, stems roughly purple-hairy. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid to ovate-petiolate, discolorous, margins slightly revolute, usually auriculate at base. Flower heads radiate, small, solitary on axillary peduncles, yellow; bracts woolly, acute. Achenes with 2 elongate cavities; pappus or basal tuft of hairs absent.