Annual or longer-lived herb, erect to 40 cm high or prostrate. Vegetative parts glandular, pilose, villous or arachnoid, becoming glabrous with age; axils of radical leaves often white-tomentose. Leaves sessile, with cauline leaves often semiamplexicaul; radical leaves (may be withered at time of flowering) oblanceolate, 10–120 mm long, 4–18 mm wide, entire or finely dentate, acute or obtuse; cauline leaves linear-lanceolate to elliptic, the lower larger leaves often oblanceolate, 5–95 mm long, 1–10 mm wide, entire or distantly toothed, acute to attenuate. Capitula solitary, 5–7 mm long, on peduncles to 10 cm long; involucral bracts glandular, pilose; receptacle flat to slightly convex, glabrous. Florets yellow, 3.2–4.5 mm long. Disc florets functionally male; corolla lobes eglandular with 1–many simple or septate hairs. Achenes 0.5–0.9 mm long, without ribs or ribs obscure.
Found in a variety of soil types in open habitats, such as savanna, which are subject to drought conditions and grass fires during the dry season.
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