Herbs, erect to spreading, not scapose, 3-5 × 5-10 dm, lanate to tomentose. Stems spreading, usually without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 4 height of plant; caudex stems matted to spreading; aerial flowering stems spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.2-1 dm, lanate to tomentose. Leaves cauline, 1 per node; petiole 0.3-1.2 cm tomentose; blade broadly ovate, 1-3(-3.5) × 0.8-2.5(-3) cm, lanate to tomentose. Inflorescences cymose-umbellate, 0.5-3 × 3-8 cm; branches umbellate, lanate to tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1-2.5 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, broadly campanulate, 3-4 × 3-5 mm, tomentose; teeth 5-6, erect, 0.5-1 mm. Flowers 5-6 mm, including elongate, rounded, slightly winged, stipelike base; perianth bright yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximally, dimorphic, those of outer whorl narrowly oblong, 3-4 × 0.7-0.9 mm, those of inner whorl oblong to spatulate, 3.5-5 × 1-1.5 mm; stamens exserted, 3-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 2.5-3 mm. 2n = 40.
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