Plants biennial, candelabra-form. Stems solitary, erect, straight; branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight; hairy. Leaves: blade 11.3–103 × 4.8–20.1 mm, widest intersinus distance 1.2–5.7 mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins pinnate to pinnatisect, lobes 8–20, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.4–8.2 mm; distal elliptic to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins pinnatisect, lobes 6–16, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.6–7.5 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and occasionally needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. Bracts: margins usually entire, sometimes toothed or pinnate. Flowers: petals golden yellow, 8.3–13 × 2.2–5.4 mm, apex acute or rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 6.5–10.7 × 1.7–4.3 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 6.1–10.2 mm. Capsules cylindric, 12.1–21.2 × 4.9–7.6 mm, base tapering or rounded, not longitudinally ridged. Seeds: coat anticlinal cell walls wavy, papillae 29–31 per cell. 2n = 22.
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