Perennials or subshrubs, 10–20(–25) cm (stems erect, spreading, or pendent); glabrate or densely puberulent. Leaves: petioles 2–5(–10) mm; blades palmately 3-lobed, or ± cruciform, sometimes entire, or with 1–3 lobes or teeth per side, 3–10(–15) × 2–15 mm, ultimate margins sometimes irregularly lobed or toothed. Heads borne singly or (2–6+) in corymbiform arrays, 5–7 × 4–5.5 mm. Peduncles 5–15 mm. Involucres campanulate. Phyllaries (8–)12–17, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3.5–5.5 × 0.7–1.2 mm. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 30–42; corollas yellow, tubes 0.8–1.1 mm, throats ± tubular, (1.3–)1.6–2 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm. Cypselae oblong-elliptic, 1.8–2.5(–2.8) mm, margins thin-calloused, short-hairy; pappi 0 or of 1(–3) stout bristles to 2 mm, usually plus callous crowns or vestigial, hyaline scales. 2n = 68.
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