Erect to procumbent herbs or shrubs with strigose branches. Leaves simple or deeply 3-lobed, opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, entire or serrate, 3 (–5)-veined; base truncate or attenuate. Capitula in compact or lax dichasial clusters, radiate; involucral bracts 5 in a single series, herbaceous, strigillose, each subtending a ray floret; receptacle paleate; paleae linear, flat, acute. Ray florets always 5, female, fertile, yellow; ligule 2-lobed. Disc florets functionally male, yellow to orange; corolla 5-lobed; anther sacs yellow to brown; pappus of several short scales or awns. Ray achenes compressed, often cucullate, black-brown; margins usually winged, with wing sometimes thickened and/or revolute; disc achenes narrowly linear, abortive. Pappus a minute cup, sometimes incised, strigillose, often with 2 short soft scale-like awns.
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