Plants mostly 15–45 cm. Leaves: basal rosettes not persistent; basal leaves mostly 2–7 × 0.5–2.5 cm; petioles 1–3 cm; blades oblanceolate, often pinnately lobed; cauline leaves gradually reduced distally. Heads borne singly. Peduncles 3–12 cm. Involucres hemispheric, mostly 5–8 × 7–12 mm Phyllaries mostly 21–34, floccose-tomentose. Rays mostly 20–40; laminae elliptic to obovate, mostly 7–10 × 4-7 mm, apices shallowly 3-toothed. Disc florets mostly 40–50; corollas 3 mm, tubes 0.3 mm, lobes 0.25 mm; style-branch apices acute. Cypselae 3 mm. 2n = 32.