Perennials, 7-34 cm (polycarpic; usually with highly branched woody caudices). Stems 1-20(-30+), usually green throughout, rarely purple-red-tinted proximally, branched distally, glabrous or ± hairy. Leaves: blades simple or lobed (lobes 3-7), glabrous or ± hairy, gland-dotted (basal leaf bases densely long-villous-woolly); mid leaves lobed (lobes 3-5, terminal lobes 0.7-2 mm wide). Heads 5-300+ per plant, in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 1-5 cm, ± hairy. Involucres campanulate, 7-11 × 7-14 mm. Phyllaries in 2 series, unequal; outer 8-13, obovate to ovate to lanceolate, basally connate ¹/2 their lengths, 3.5-8 mm, apices acuminate to acute; inner 8-18, obovate, 3-8 mm, apices mucronate. Ray florets 7-14; corollas yellow, 7-17 × 3-6 mm. Disc florets 25-75+; corollas 3-5 mm. Cypselae narrowly obpyramidal, 2-3 mm; pappi of 4-8 obovate to lanceolate, aristate scales 1.8-3.5 mm. 2n = 30.