Annual herb 20–50 cm tall, sometimes slightly scrambling; stems pubescent in lower part.. Leaves often dense near base of plant, sessile, narrowly obovate or elliptic, 1.5–4.5 cm long, 0.5–2.4 cm wide, base cuneate, margins ± sinuate, obscurely denticulate, apex obtuse, pubescent.. Capitula solitary, terminal on long stalk, discoid, stalks of the individual capitula glabrous; involucre cylindrical, 5.5–6.5 mm long, 3.5 mm in diameter; phyllaries 11, 5–7 mm long, glabrous.. Ray florets absent; disc florets orange, 4.5–5.2 mm long, lobes 1.5–1.7 mm long.. Achenes 1.5–2.2 mm long, glabrous; pappus 3.5–4 mm long.