Perennials or subshrubs, 7–45 cm (often dense clumps to 60 cm across); hirtellous. Leaves: petioles 3–10 mm; blades subdeltate, suborbiculate, or subovate, 3–14 × 3–15 mm, margins usually 2–5-lobed or serrate, sometimes subentire or 3-lobed. Heads borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 7–8 × 5–9 mm. Peduncles 5–60 mm. Involucres campanulate. Phyllaries 14–22, lanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, 5–6 × 1–2 mm. Ray florets 6–14; corollas yellow, laminae 3–6 × 1.2–3 mm. Disc florets 60–80; corollas yellow, tubes 1.2–1.5 mm, throats tubular to subfunnelform, 2.4–3 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm. Cypselae narrowly oblanceolate, 2–3.5 mm, margins thin-calloused, short-hairy; pappi of single, ± stout bristles 2.5–4 mm plus crowns of vestigial, hyaline scales. 2n = 34.
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