Perennials, 2-30+ cm. Caudices ± branched, branches notably thickened distally. Stems 1-35(-60), erect, unbranched. Leaves all basal, new leaves tightly clustered; blades spatulate or oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, entire, glabrous or ± hairy, often lanuginose, sericeous, or strigoso-canescent, eglandular or ± gland-dotted. Heads 1-35(-60) per plant, borne singly. Peduncles 0.5-30 cm, ± hairy. Involucres 7-12 × 8-16 mm. Outer phyllaries 6-12, 3.9-9(-11.5) mm, margins 0-0.4 mm wide, sometimes slightly scarious, abaxial faces ± hairy. Ray florets 8-15(-21); corollas 9-19 mm. Disc florets 25-200+; corollas yellow, 2.7-4.3 mm. Cypselae 2-4 mm; pappi of 5-8 obovate to oblanceolate, aristate scales 2.2-3.7 mm.