Annual herb or short-lived perennial, spreading or erect to 40 cm, with scattered wispy hairs. Lower leaves crowded, subpetiolate, obovate to oblanceolate, without auricles, to 4 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, entire or remotely callose-denticulate; mid-cauline leaves subpetiolate, oblanceolate, auriculate, lobulate or 2–4-pinnately lobed; upper leaves sessile, clasping, auriculate. Capitula few–100 in a cymose inflorescence; calycular bracteoles 4–6, linear-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm long, crowded below receptacle; involucral bracts (9–) 11–13, 4.5–6 mm long. Outer florets 8–10, usually female, often with staminodes, sometimes with pollen, slender, tubular, yellow; lobes (2–) 3 or 4 (–5); disc florets 15–25, funnel-shaped; lobes 4 or 5. Cypselas 2.2–2.5 mm long, brown; pappus hairs persistent.
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