Perennials or subshrubs, ± grayish to green, to 15(-25) cm, usually puberulent to canescent, sometimes glabrescent or glabrous. Stems erect or spreading. Leaves mostly opposite; blades mostly pinnately lobed, 6-28+ mm overall, lobes 3-11 linear to filiform (usually stiff, setiform). Peduncles 20-100 mm, puberulent or glabrous. Calyculi 0, or of 1-5 deltate bractlets, lengths less than ¹/2 phyllaries. Involucres obconic to campanulate or hemispheric, 4-6 mm. Phyllaries 12-21, margins of outer distinct ¹/5 to nearly all their lengths, abaxial faces puberulent or glabrous. Ray florets (8-)12-21; corollas yellow to orange-yellow, laminae 2-6(-8) × 1-3 mm. Disc florets 16-40 or 50-80; corollas yellow, 2-4 mm (tending to zygomorphy in peripheral florets in some plants). Cypselae 2-3 mm; pappi of 10 erose and/or aristate scales mostly 1-3 mm.

Plant: Perennial forb to 30 cm Leaves: leaves with translucent oil glands, filiform and clustered at nodes