Herbs, often rather compact mats, 1-3.5 × 2-6 dm. Aerial flowering stems erect, 1-2(-3) dm, thinly floccose or glabrous, without one or more leaflike bracts ca. midlength. Leaves in loose rosettes; blade usually elliptic, 1-2 × 0.5-1.5 cm, glabrous on both surfaces (except in central Idaho, where sparsely floccose even at full maturity), margins plane. Inflorescences umbellate; branches 0.3-2(-2.5) cm, without a whorl of bracts ca. midlength; involucral tubes 1.8-3 mm, lobes 1-3 mm. Flowers 4-7 mm; perianth bright yellow.
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