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Perennial herb, up to 0.9 m high; with milky latex. Stems ribbed. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, upper leaves alternate, sessile; blade of lower leaves narrowly ovate to linear-elliptic, up to ± 120 x 30 mm, apex attenuate-acute, margins remotely lobed to sinuate-dentate or sharply denticulate, sometimes entire, lobes linear; upper leaves linear or narrowly ovate, margins entire, base semi-amplexicaul, sagittate. Heads ligulate, 20 x 10 mm, up to ± 5 in lax, corymbiform cymes; peduncle remotely leafy or with large bracts. Involucral bracts white-woolly at base; in several series, imbricate; outer usually beset with fleshy setae. Flowers: ligules yellow; Nov.-Feb. Fruit with cypsela pale brown, narrowly ellipsoid, tapering slightly and equally at both ends, slightly compressed, 4-ribbed, margins thickened, smooth, ± 5 mm long. Pappus of barbellate bristles intermixed with down-like hairs.
Erect, glabrous, perennial herb, up to 0.9 m high, with milky latex. Leaves in a basal rosette, sessile, lower leaves narrowly oblanceolate to linear-elliptic, remotely lobed to sinuate-dentate or sharply denticulate, sometimes entire, attenuate-acute apically, lobes recurved, narrowly lanceolate; cauline leaves few, lanceolate, entire, apex attenuate, base semi-amplexicaul and sagittate-auriculate. Capitula ligulate, few in lax, corymbiform cymes, sometimes solitary; involucral bracts in several rows, imbricate, bases of outer ones densely white-woolly, often fleshy glandular-setose on midribs. Florets 5-lobed, yellow. Flowering time Aug., Oct.-Apr. Pappus of few, white, barbellate bristles intermixed with down-like hairs. Cypselae pale brown, narrowly ellipsoid, slightly compressed, ribbed rugulose, ± 5 mm long.
Phyllaries olive-green, glaucous, imbricate; the outermost c. 3 mm. long, ovate, lanate and often also patent-setose outside, semi-coriaceous; the innermost c. 15 x 2 mm. in flowering capitula, increasing to c. 19 mm. in fruiting capitula, glabrous, or setose on the midribs and apices, membranous, becoming involute.
Perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves in a basal rosette. Involucre white-woolly at base and outer bracts usually beset with fleshy setae. Peduncles remotely leafy or with large bracts, bearing up to 5 heads. Achenes slightly compressed, margins thickened; smooth. Flowers yellow, pink or reddish.
Achenes pale-brown, c. 5 mm. long, narrowly ellipsoid, slightly compressed, strongly c. 4-ribbed with 1–2 secondary ribs between, ribs eventually swollen and ± rugulose; pappus white, c. 10 mm. long, composed of few minutely barbellate setae intermixed with down-like hairs.
Lower leaves very narrowly-oblanceolate to linear-elliptic, remotely lobed to sinuate-dentate or sharply denticulate, sometimes entire, attenuate-acute apically, glaucous; lobes up to c. 2.5 x 0.5 cm., recurved, narrowly lanceolate.
Capitula few in lax corymbiform cymes, sometimes solitary; mature capitula often subtended by 1-several subsessile buds; capitula bases and subtending buds densely white woolly.
Cauline leaves few, grading into foliaceous bracts, or absent; lanceolate entire, attenuate above, semi-amplexicaul and sagittate-auriculate below.
Involucres up to c. 19 x 9 mm. in fruiting capitula, cylindric-campanulate, white-lanate below, the receptacle becoming somewhat swollen.
Corollas yellow, c. 15 mm. long, pubescent about the junction between the tube and ligule; ligule c. 4 mm. long, strap-shaped.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 12-90 cm high. It has a slightly woody taproot.
Stems usually scapiform, 1-several-branched from near the base, sometimes simple, striately-ribbed.
Leaves ± numerous, mostly basal, often rosulate, patent-ascending, up to c. 12(19) x 1(2.3) cm.
An erect glaucous perennial herb 12–90 cm. tall, from a semi-woody taproot.
Florets numerous.
