Perennial suffrutex, up to 1 m tall. Stems woody, branching, tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: upper leaves deltoid-reniform to reniform, usually pinnatifid at base, 11-38 x 13-53 mm, lower leaves reniform; lamina 10-70 x 11-91 mm, dorsal surface tomentose (to cobwebby), ventral surface densely tomentose, rarely glabrescent; apex obtuse to rounded-obtuse; margin conspicuously dentate, 6-10 teeth per lobe; base cordate to subcordate to truncate; petiole 7-62 mm long, tomentose, glabrescent as leaves mature; auricles large and persistent, auriform. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, many arranged in compound corymbs; peduncles 5-31 mm from point of branching, tomentose (to cobwebby), usually glabrescent, bracteate. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 8-13, 4-6 mm long, tomentose, to cobwebby, glabrescent; margins scarious. Ray florets 8-10(-12), 7.5-10.5 mm long; limb 4.5-7.5 mm long, 4(-11-veined). Disc florets 38-53; corolla 4.5-6.0 mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed, margined to narrowly winged, brown, 2.5-3.2 mm long, ciliate with hairs on faces. Pappus to base of disc floret corolla lobes.
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Perennial subshrub, up to 1 m high. Leaves (5-)7-lobed, margins conspicuously dentate; upper leaves deltoid-reniform to reniform, usually pinnatifid at base; lower leaves reniform; both sides tomentose. Inflorescence a compound corymb with many heads on relatively short peduncles. Achenes densely ciliate on margins or narrow wings. Flowers yellow; March to June, October and December.