Perennial herb, to c. 40 cm tall. Stems herbaceous to slightly woody, branching towards the base, usually flexuous, up to c. 5 mm in diameter at base, hairy or glabrous, distinctly lined. Leaves reniform, shallowly (to fairly deeply) lobed, rarely with a pair of lateral pinnae; lamina 6-35(-45) × 9-50(-72) mm, hairy or glabrous above and hairy or sparsely hairy below, or glabrous with few hairs in angles of lobes; apex rounded; margin coarsely dentate; base cordate (to subcordate in upper leaves); petiole 11-85 mm long, hairy; auricles conspicuous, auriform, caducous. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few (3-6 per stem) to many (8-45) per stem) arranged in a lax (to fairly compact) corymbose panicle; peduncles 3-38(-55) mm long, hairy or glabrous, bracteate. Involucre with few calyculus bracts; phyllaries 8-13, 4.0-5.5 mm long, hairy or glabrous; margins scarious. Ray florets 5-8(-11), 6.0-9.0(-11.5) mm long; limb 4.5-6.0(-8.0) mm long, 4-(-7)-veined. Disc florets (20-)30-54; corolla 4.0-5.5(-6.0) mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed, margined, ray cypselae occasionally narrow-winged, dark brown with paler margin, 2.2-3.0 mm long, ciliate with long whitish hairs, sparsely hairy (to hairy) on faces. Pappus 4.5-6.0 mm long.
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Sprawling perennial to 60 cm. Leaves reniform, mostly shallowly and lobed or crenate and toothed, roughly hairy or hairless above, roughly hairy beneath, petioles with large, caducous, basal auricles. Flower heads radiate, in terminal corymbs, yellow; involucral bracts hairy or glabrous.
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