Annual, up to 150 mm tall, stems short or absent. Leaves petiolate, lower-most lyrate-pinnatisect, upper leaves pinnatisect, glabrescent above, densely felted below. Involucre base rounded; outer involucral bracts with shortly reflexed apex, softly hairy. Ray florets neuter, limb pale yellow; disc florets hermaphrodite, dark. Cypsela obconical, 1 linear-triangular abaxial cavity, wings dentate, glabrous or pubescent, basal hairs when present shorter than cypsela; pappus absent or biseriate, both whorls of 8 scales, inner whorl much longer than outer whorl.