Perennial herb, ± fleshy. Leaves: radical leaves ovate, acute, up to 50 mm long, 3-5-nerved at base; petioles up to 120 mm long; cauline leaves sessile, stem-clasping, eared, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse to acute, up to 50 mm long, entire, margins undulate. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, mostly 1-headed; peduncles up to 170 mm long. Capitula 20-25 mm in diam.; involucral bracts ± 12, lanceolate, connate below, 8 mm long; rays (± 12 and disc yellow. Flowering time Apr.-July. Pappus of buff-coloured to purplish hairs, 10 mm long. Cypselae ribbed, ± hairy, 8 mm long.