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Annual herb 3-45 cm high, glabrous; stems prostrate to ascending or erect, green and sometimes with red markings. Leaves radical as well as alternate (the cauline ones), slightly fleshy, glaucous beneath, ovate in outline, 2-3-pinnatifid, 1-5 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, the segments narrowly lanceolate to linear, apiculate; petiole 10-30 mm long, clasping the stem at base. Capitula solitary or in few-headed cymes, but seemingly forming leafy panicles; peduncle to 6 cm long; involucre shortly cylindrical, 3-4 mm long; phyllaries with scarious margins and turning orange in fruit; paleae to 3 mm long. Ray florets yellow or orange-yellow, ray 1-2.5 mm long, tube 0.5-0.7 mm long; disc florets (8-)13-34, yellow or orange, 0.8-1.8 mm long. Achenes oblong, 2-6 mm long, those of disc florets compressed, puberulous, with a narrow wing; pappus absent.
Annual herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves pinnatifid with segments often lobed, linear or very narrowly obovate apiculate; petiole up to 30 mm long, widened and clasping stem at base. Flowers with yellow or orange-yellow rays, disc orange.
A herb.
