Plants perennial. Stems erect, green to gray-green, 2.5–9 dm, gray-green canescent. Leaf blades green to gray-green, triangular, unlobed or weakly 5-lobed, to 4.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to truncate, margins coarsely toothed, surfaces stellate-pubescent. Inflorescences narrowly paniculate, crowded, few–many-flowered, flowers in clusters, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets green to tan. Flowers: sepals 4–9 mm, tips forming weak beak in bud; petals red-orange, 11–14 mm; anthers yellow. Schizocarps spheric; mericarps 12, 3.5–4 × 2.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55% of height, tip acute, with reflexed apical cusp, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. Seeds 1 per mericarp, brown, slightly hairy.
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A herb. The stems are erect and 80 cm tall. The leaves are alternate and triangle shaped. They are 6 cm long. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are in clusters. The petals are orange to red.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.