Perennials, 5–100 cm. Stems 3–10, lanate to woolly. Leaves mostly basal; blades gray to grayish green, spatulate, 1–9 cm, margins entire or undulate, dentate, or lobed, faces densely lanate to woolly; distal cauline leaves mostly lanceolate to linear, gradually reduced or none. Heads 1–3. Involucres obconic to hemispheric, 8–18 mm diam. Phyllaries 7–12 mm, outer oblong-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, apices acuminate to acute. Ray florets 9–32; corolla tubes glabrous, laminae yellow to reddish orange, 6–18 mm. Disc corollas yellow to orange. Cypselae 5–10 mm; pappus scales equal to subequal, 1–2 mm.