Herbs, erect, 1.5-3.5(-4) × 0.5-1 dm, tomentose. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, stout, solid, not fistulose, arising directly from a taproot, (0.5-)1-2 dm, tomentose. Leaves basal, not in rosettes; petiole 4-10 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade lanceolate to elliptic, (2-)4-12(-15) × 1-3.5 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences compound-umbellate, 5-15(-20) × 3-10(-12) cm; branches tomentose; bracts 3-6, leaflike at proximal node, 1-4 × 0.5-1.5(-1.8) cm, often scalelike distally. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate to campanulate, 3-5 × 2-4 mm, tomentose; teeth 5-7, erect or slightly spreading, 0.3-0.6 mm. Flowers (2.5-)3-7 mm, including 1-1.5(-2) mm stipelike base; perianth bright yellow, densely pubescent; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl lanceolate to elliptic, 2.5-5 × 1.5-2.5 mm, those of inner whorl elliptic to fan-shaped, 4-7 × 2-3.5 mm; stamens exserted, 3-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 3.5-6 mm, glabrous except for sparsely pubescent beak. 2n = 40.
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