Subshrubs, mostly spreading, 1-5 × 2-6 dm. Aerial flowering stems erect, 1-3 dm, thinly tomentose to nearly glabrous, without one or more leaflike bracts ca. midlength. Leaves in rather open rosettes; blade usually elliptic, 1-2(-2.5) × 0.5-1.5 cm, thinly tomentose to floccose abaxially, less so to thinly floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences umbellate; branches 0.3-3(-5) cm, thinly tomentose to subglabrous, without a whorl of bracts ca. midlength; involucral tubes 2-3.5 mm, lobes 1.5-3.5 mm. Flowers 4-7 mm; perianth bright yellow. 2n = 80.