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Perennial herbs, often with long leafy stolons, branching. Hairs usually of 2 or more types including glandular, eglandular, stellate, and plumose. Leaves all or mostly basal. Inflorescences solitary, cymose or paniculate. Capitula pedunculate; involucral bracts multiseriate or approaching biseriate, soft and reflexed at maturity. Florets: ligule yellow, rarely orange, green or white. Achenes homomorphic, not compressed, not beaked. Pappus of bristles, somewhat persistent; bristles scabrid-barbellate, ±uniform within pappus, or length variable. [This description is from the Hieracium treatment of Thompson (2015: 128–129) which included species now included in Pilosella, e.g. Hieracium aurantiacum, now treated as Pilosella aurantiaca, hence the above description may include elements of Pilosella-editorial note, 6 August 2020.]
