A weak tufted perennial, all vegetative parts viscidulous with abundant short gland-tipped hairs. Leaves mostly basal, petiolate, the petioles variable in length up to c. 7 cm, broadening gradually to laminae which vary from lanceolate to ovate and even orbicular up to c. 8 cm long, coarsely and irregularly crenulate-dentate, obtuse. Stems often several from one tuft, slender, loosely and irregularly branched, sometimes from near the base, often bearing near the base one or a few sessile stem-clasping leaves, smaller and narrower than the basal leaves: height up to 45 cm, usually much less. Peduncle bearing a few small linear bracts. Capitula rayless, diam., c. 12 mm, basal bracts very few, main bracts c. 13, c. 9 mm long, attenuate: disc florets c. 34, the corolla dull orange-coloured: pappus scanty, soft. Flowers from August throughout the summer.
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