Plants (10–)18–80 cm. Stems 2–10, erect or ascending, pale or reddish, often stout, usually glabrous, often tomentose distally. Leaves: basal petiolate, blades oblanceolate to spatulate or narrowly elliptic, 80–450 × 5–60 mm (firm, leathery, succulent), margins entire or undulate, eciliate, apices acute or obtuse, faces usually glabrous, rarely puberulent, eglandular; cauline sessile, blades lanceolate, 10–120 × 5–30 mm, bases clasping. Heads usually borne singly, terminal, sometimes 2–6 (not subtended by leaflike bracts). Peduncles 1–5 cm. Involucres hemispheric, 10–20 × 15–60 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series (loose), usually green, sometimes yellowish, oblong to spatulate, 9–15 mm, subequal, margins pale, entire or denticulate, eciliate, apices ± erect, obtuse, broad. Ray florets 30–90; corollas (bright yellow) 9–30 mm. Disc florets 100+; corollas 7–13 mm. Cypselae narrowly oblong, compressed, 5–8 mm, 4-angled, faces striate, glabrous; pappi tawny, 6–12 mm.
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