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Perennial herb, up to 200 mm high; mostly acaulescent, with milky latex. Leaves crowded in a basal rosette, sessile; blade obovate or elliptic, up to 80 x 25 mm, margins entire, denticulate, pinnatifid or runcinate-pinnatifid. Heads ligulate, 20 x 10 mm, solitary, almost sessile at flowering, peduncles elongating as fruit mature, nude or occasionally minutely bracteate. Involucre white-woolly or glabrous at base; bracts in several series, imbricate, glabrous or with a few fleshy setae. Flowers: ligules yellow; Oct., Nov., Feb. Fruit with cypsela pale brown, narrowly ellipsoid, tapering slightly and equally at both ends, slightly compressed, ribbed, smooth, margins thickened, ± 5 mm long. Pappus of barbellate bristles intermixed with downlike hairs.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has a woody rootstock. The leaves are at the base. The leaves are narrow and pointed and do not have a stalk. They have irregular lobes and teeth along the edge. The leaves are 12 cm long by 3 cm wide. The flower heads occur singly at the ends of the plant. They are on 20 cm long stalks. Flowers are yellow.
Mostly an acaulescent perennial herb. Leaves crowded in a basal rosette; peduncles nude or occasionally minutely bracteate, 1-headed. Involucre white-woolly or glabrous at base; bracts glabrous or with a few fleshy setae. Achenes slightly compressed, smooth, margins thickened. Flowers yellow.
