Annual, sparsely pubescent, viscidulous above, erect; stem terete; cauline leaves sessile, not auricled, lanceolate, coarsely few-toothed, tapering at base, glabrous or nearly so, with scarcely reflexed margins; rameal leaves stem-clasping, coarsely toothed at base, acuminate, more or less scabrid; heads subcorymbose, on very long, copiously scaly pedicels; inv. of many dark-tipped, glabrous scales, amply calycled with many imbricating, lanceolate bracteoles nearly equalling the inv. scales; disc yellow, rays purple.