Herbs, erect, 4-5 × 3-5 dm, tomentose to floccose. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, stout, solid, not fistulose, arising directly from a taproot, 1-2.5 dm, tomentose to floccose. Leaves basal, not in rosettes; petiole 2-5 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade elliptic, (2.5-)3-6.5 × 1.5-3 cm, densely whitish-to tannish-tomentose abaxially, thinly tomentose to floccose and greenish adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences compound-umbellate, 5-15 × 5-20 cm; branches tomentose to floccose; bracts 3-6, leaflike at proximal node, 2-4(-5) × 0.7-1.8 cm, often scalelike distally. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 3-6 × 3-7 mm, thinly floccose; teeth 5-7, erect, 0.3-0.6 mm. Flowers 4-7(-9) mm, including 1-1.5 mm stipelike base; perianth bright yellow, densely pubescent abaxially; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl lanceolate to elliptic, 3-6 × 1.5-2.5, those of inner whorl elliptic, 5-9 × 2-3.5 mm; stamens exserted, 3-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 4-8 mm, glabrous except for sparsely pubescent beak.
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