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Perennial herb, rhizomatous, forming caespitose clumps, 0.2-0.6 m high. Leaves in basal rosette, ± sessile, entire or shortly lobed, 50-250 mm long; involucral bracts in many rows, outer bracts hirsute above, white-tomentose below. Ray florets female, fertile, limb yellow. Disc florets many, hermaphrodite, corolla yellow. Filaments shortly papillose. Flowering time Nov.-Feb. Pappus of scales in 2 unequal series, inner series longer than outer series, inner scales exceeding cypsela length, 5-6 mm long. Cypselae tangentially compressed, smooth, 3 abaxial ribs conspicuous, basal ring of hairs longer than cypsela.
Leaves up to c. 12, rosulate suberect, mostly 5–20 x 1.5–6 cm. exceptionally to c. 30 cm. long, or 10 cm. wide, elliptic to oblanceolate, sometimes elongate-subspathulate narrowing from about the middle into a linear petiole-like base, apex obtuse to somewhat rounded, margins entire to sinuate-dentate, midrib composed of 5–7 distinct veins running parallel to diverge in pairs at ± regular intervals, each curving to the leaf apex, subprominent on both surfaces; upper surface finely pilose, lower surface densely white-felted.
Rays yellow, usually erect, 10–21 x 1.5–2.8 mm.; achenes 1.5–1.8 mm. long, turbinate, obscurely c. 8-ribbed, glabrous except for a basal coma of copious hairs longer than the achene; pappus c. 2-seriate, of c. 8 delicate overlapping narrowly lanceolate inner scales to c. 5 mm. long, and a few smaller outer scales.
Phyllaries many-seriate, margins scarious-hyaline; outer phyllaries 4–6 mm. long, ± expanded in the apical half, or linear; the middle phyllaries 7–9 x 2–3.5 mm., oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the apex; the innermost to c. 12 x 1.5–2 mm., strap-shaped.
Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Involucral bracts in several series. Achenes with long-acuminate pappus scales, longer than achenes and conspicuous basal coma of long silky hairs. Flowers with pale yellow rays, disc yellow.
Scapes 1–4 from the rootcrown, up to c. 75 cm. tall, stout, white-araneose and also with scattered patent soft reddish-purple pilose hairs to c. 1 mm. long.
Disk-florets with yellow corollas c. 5.5 mm. long, achenes and pappus similar to those of the ray-florets.
A scapose perennial herb from a woody rootstock or rhizome; roots numerous thong-like.
Involucres 12–25 x 8–13 mm., broadly cupuliform.
