Herbs 4-10 cm tall, perennial, glabrous, glaucescent. Roots and subterranean shoots often branched and slender. Stem delicate, erect, branched from base, leafy. Basal and lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole equaling or shorter to rarely longer than leaf blade; leaf blade elliptic, elliptic-oblanceolate, or spatulate, 0.5-4 × 0.3-1.5 cm, undivided to pinnatipartite, base gradually attenuate into petiole, margin subentire to sinuate-dentate, apex acute to obtuse; lateral lobes (if present) toothlike. Middle stem leaves sessile or subsessile, oblanceolate, otherwise similar to lower stem leaves. Upper stem leaves linear to subulate, smaller. Synflorescence corymbiform, with few capitula. Capitula with 10-12 florets; peduncle filiform, shorter than to ± as long as involucre. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 8-11[-13] × 3-4 mm. Phyllaries green, abaxially glabrous; outer phyllaries ovate to ovate-lanceolate, longest 3-4 mm, apex acute; inner phyllaries 8, margin scarious, apex acute to obtuse. Florets yellow. Corolla 1.1-1.4 cm. Anther tube 3-4 mm. Achene pale yellowish, fusiform, 4.5-7 mm, apically more attenuate. Pappus 5-8 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug.
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