Perennials or subshrubs, (10–)15–75 cm (in soil, tap roots fleshy, stems erect or spreading); glandular-pubescent. Leaves: petioles 10–35 mm; blades usually palmately 3-lobed or ± cruciform, 6–35 × 10–50 mm, lobes usually again ternately dissected, cleft, or parted. Heads borne singly or (2–3) in corymbiform arrays, 8–10 × 10–13 mm. Peduncles 10–80 mm. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric. Phyllaries 20–30, oblanceolate or lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 6–7 × 1–2 mm, apices usually acute, sometimes short-attenuate. Ray florets 12–18; corollas yellow, laminae oblong, 4–10 × 2–4 mm. Disc florets 50–100; corollas yellow, tubes 1.2–1.5 mm, throats tubular to broadly tubular, 2.2–3 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm. Cypselae linear-elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, (2–)3–4 mm, margins usually prominently calloused, sometimes thin, usually densely ciliate, sometimes short-hairy; pappi 0 or of 1(–2) retrorsely or erectly barbellate (at least near tips) bristles 1–4 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales. 2n = 34.
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