Perennial herb, with herbaceous or quite lignified stems in lower part, and short, rigid, glanduliferous hairs, 0.2-0.6 m high. Leaves sessile, linear, linear-lanceolate or oblong, dentate and pinnatifid or entire. Capitula yellow. Ray florets are longer or slightly longer than involucral scales. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Cypselae obovoid or obpyra-midal-triangular with ± strongly marked cross-furrows.
Perennial herb, 0.2-0.6 m high, whole plant usually clothed with short, rigid, glanduliferous hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear-lanceolate to oblong, denticulate to pinnatifid; viscid hispidulous, glabrescent. Ray flowers very short, as long as or slightly longer than involucral bracts. Achenes obovoid or obpyramidal-triangular with a number of processes. Flowers pale to bright yellow.
Characteristic for the species are the short ray flowers, which are about as long as or slightly (c. 1 mm) longer than the involucral scales.