Perennial herb, prostrate and creeping, mat-forming; stem scabrid.. Leaves ovate or trullate, 1.5–8 cm long, 0.7–4 cm wide, base rounded and abruptly cuneate to attenuate into a winged pseudopetiole, margins serrate, apex acute, scabrid on both surfaces.. Capitula terminal and solitary or in pairs; stalks of individual capitula 1–7.5 cm long; involucre ovoid, 2–3-seriate, 6–11 mm long; phyllaries green, scabrid-pilose; paleae with acute or apiculate apex.. Ray florets yellow to orange, 8–9, usually with styles, the ray 7.5–8 mm long, tube 2.3–2.7 mm long; disc florets yellow or orange, 4.5–5 mm long; anther appendages yellow.. Achenes obovoid with 4 fat ribs reaching as high as the cupule, 3.7–5.5 mm long, pubescent; pappus a lacerate cupule to 1 mm high and with or without 1 seta to 1.8 mm long.
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