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Stemless or short-stemmed, tuberous geophyte, up to 150 mm tall, with a woolly crown. Leaves sometimes emergent at flowering, rosulate or basally congested, ± petiolate, oblanceolate to obovate-suborbiculate, mostly 30-60 x 10-40 mm, serrate or variously incised to pinnatifid, mostly with serrated lobes, leathery, rarely with bristles on upper surface, margins slightly revolute, woolly in axils. Flowerheads solitary on stiff, naked peduncles, radiate; ray florets yellow (rarely white) and usually with red or dark reverse; disc florets yellow or black; involucre shallowly cup-shaped, 10-15 mm diam., bracts 10-12, 8-10 x 1.5-2.5 mm. Cypselas 4-5 mm, pubescent; pappus 15-25 mm long.
Glabrous, glaucous, ± fleshy, perennial herb; ± stemless, crown woolly, rootstock tuberous. Leaves radical, oblanceolate, subpetiolate, entire or variably incised, denticulate or sinuate, up to 100 mm long, axils woolly. Peduncles (scapes) to 150 mm long. Capitula campanulate, up to 30 mm in diam.; rays 12-14, yellow above, often red-brown below, dries ± blue, disc yellow. Flowering time Apr.-Sept. Pappus of buff-coloured hairs, 20 mm long. Cypselae silky, 8 mm long.
A herb with a short stem and it keeps growing from year to year. It has a tuberous root. It grows 75 cm tall. The leaves are in a ring near the base. They are broadly sword shaped and 3-5 cm long y 1-4 cm wide. There are teeth or divisions along the edge. The flower heads occur singly on stiff stalks. They are yellow and red underneath.
Stemless, tuberous perennial to 15 cm. Leaves radical, petiolate, oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed or pinnatifid, woolly in axils. Flower heads radiate, solitary on stiff, naked peduncles, yellow often with red reverse; pappus of ray florets much elongated in fruit.
