Herbs, spreading, 1-3.5 × 2-4(-6) dm, hirtellous to glabrescent. Stems: caudex spreading; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, non-flowering aerial branches, 0.8-2.5(-3) dm, essentially glabrous. Leaves basal, occasionally in rosettes; petiole 0.3-4 cm, hirtellous; blade broadly oblanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 0.5-2(-2.5) × 0.3-0.8(-1.2) cm, hirtellous to glabrescent, margins plane, entire. Inflorescences subcapitate, (1.5-)2-5 cm wide; branches subglabrous; bracts 5, semileaflike, 0.2-0.5 × 0.1-0.2 cm, absent immediately below involucre. Involucres 1 per node (often appearing clustered), narrowly turbinate, 5-6 × 2-3 mm, hirtellous; teeth 5-6, erect, 0.8-1 mm. Flowers 3-3.5(-4) mm, including 0.1-0.2 mm stipelike base; perianth bright yellow, sparsely white-pilose abaxially; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl spatulate, 2.5-3 mm wide, those of inner whorl oblanceolate, 1 mm wide; stamens exserted, 3-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous except for pubescent beak.
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