Plants 5–50 cm. Stems 1–4, erect or ascending to decumbent, reddish, leafy, villous. Leaves: basal (in rosettes) petiolate, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate or spatulate, 50–200 × 5–40 mm, margins usually spinulose-serrate, sometimes entire, ciliate, apices acute, faces puberulent; cauline sessile, blades linear-lanceolate, 40–100 × 5–15 mm, reduced distally, faces glabrous or villous-hispid, eglandular. Heads usually borne singly, terminal, sometimes 2–3 in racemiform arrays, subtended by leaflike bracts. Peduncles 1–5 cm. Involucres turbinate to campanulate, 10–20 × 15–35 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series (± loose), linear-lanceolate to oblong, 10–20 mm, unequal, bases tapering, margins spinulose-serrate, ciliate, apices occasionally recurved, acute, mucronate, faces puberulent. Ray florets 0 or 1–30; corollas yellow, 2–7 mm (not surpassing involucres). Disc florets 25–50; corollas 9–14 mm. Cypselae subcylindric, 3–5.5 mm, 4-angled, faces striate or smooth, glabrous; pappi tawny, 6–9 mm.
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