Perennials, 10–50 cm; taprooted. Stems branched proximally and often distally. Leaves basal and cauline; petiolate (petioles broadly winged, clasping); blades linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–30 cm, margins entire, dentate, or pinnately lobed (lobes narrow, often retrorse). Peduncles erect (10–50 cm), ebracteate or leafy. Involucres narrowly ovoid in fruit, 8–17 mm. Phyllaries: sometimes purple-spotted, apices erect, acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or scurfy-puberulent, often black-villous; outer lanceolate to deltate; inner lanceolate. Florets 8–30; corollas yellow, surpassing phyllaries by 5+ mm. Cypselae columnar, 4–7 mm; pappi of 5–10, white, lanceolate, glabrous, aristate scales 3–6 mm, aristae barbellulate. 2n = 18.
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