Annual erect herb to 60 cm high. Stems sparsely glandular, sparsely pilose, usually leafy in lower ⅓ to ½, ebracteate or bracteate above or leafless from base and scapiform. Leaves rosulate and cauline (rosette rarely absent), sessile, with cauline leaves often amplexicaul or semiamplexicaul, oblanceolate, spathulate, elliptic, becoming linear distally, 10–160 mm long, 1–50 mm wide, finely to coarsely serrate or dentate, acute, concolorous, pilose or glabrescent, with lower axils often white-lanuginose. Capitula 6–8 mm long, in lax, few–many-flowered terminal panicles; peduncles to c. 35 mm long, rarely longer; involucral bracts sparsely glandular, glabrescent or pilose; receptacle slightly convex, glabrous. Florets yellow. Disc corolla lobes glandular, usually glabrous. Achenes c. 1 mm long, usually ribbed.
Found in grassland and in the understorey of open woodland, shrubland and vine thickets, usually on damp to seasonally inundated clay soils.
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