Sprawling or ascending perennial herb, to 40 cm tall, sometimes much branched below; stems glabrous or pilose in lines, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, the internodes short or long. Leaves opposite, to 4 cm long, deeply lobed, sometimes trifoliolate or bi-compound, the sinuses narrow, the lobes 2-4 on each side, apically obtuse or acute, mucronulate, the basal half entire, acute; petiole short or to 7 mm long, basally ciliate. Inflorescence of 1-3 heads inserted between reduced, foliaceous bracts or branching from a common peduncle; peduncle slender, to 20 cm long, gradually narrowing upwards, sometimes with one or two bracteoles opposite or alternating along its length. Heads radiate, sometimes showy; involucral bracts in several series of about equal length, the outer series glabrate, 3 mm long, linear, apically rounded and mucronulate, the inner series dorsally pubescent at the base, broader, slightly longer; receptacle convex; paleas scarious, 7 mm long, the costa striate, the tip darkened; ray florets 5-8, the corolla yellow, broad, apically minutely 2-3-denticulate or entire, the venation prominent, 2-3 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, the style mostly wanting, the ovary sterile; disc florets numerous, the corolla yellowish, ca. 5 mm long, tubular, the limb expanded, tubular, the margins of the lobes thickened, papillose, the anthers ca. 2 mm long, yellowish, basally subauriculate, the appendages narrow, ligulate, the filaments glabrous, the style branches apically ascending-pilose with a short, papillose, linear appendix, the style base inserted in a cylindrical nectary, the ovary fertile. Achenes dimorphic, the outer series few, shorter, slightly incurved and dull, the innermost numerous, linear, deeply sulcate, black, shiny, mostly straight, glabrous or with a few minute ascending bristles near the apex; carpopodium yellowish; pappus of 2-4 short awns, retrorsely barbed, yellow, 1-2 mm long.
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