Annuals, 10–60 cm. Stems single, branches ascending, glabrous. Leaves withered at flowering; basal blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 5–7 cm, margins entire to pinnately lobed (faces glabrous); cauline much reduced, bractlike. Heads borne singly along branches. Peduncles 5–10 mm (glabrous). Calyculi of appressed bractlets. Involucres 8–9.5 mm. Florets 5–6 (ligules usually pink, rarely white or orange-yellow). Cypselae tan to light brown, 3.3–3.8 mm, faces moderately tuberculate, grooved; pappi of 9–12(–15), light tan bristles (connate in groups of 2–4, bristles and/or bases persistent), plumose on distal 50–60%. 2n = 16.
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