Perennial with slender to stout rootstock. Stems ascending, not branching, (2)-10-50 cm tall, glabrous or with sparse 2-fid hairs. Lvs all basal, linear to linear-oblanceolate, simple and distantly dentate to pinnatifid with triangular spreading to recurved lobes, (2)-6-16-(25) × (0.2)-0.6-1.5-(3) cm; hairs 2-(3)-fid at tip, sparse to dense. Stem bracts 0-(1). Capitula turbinate, nodding in bud. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or with 2-fid hairs; outer bracts c. ⅓ length of inner bracts; inner bracts (7)-10-15 mm long. Florets yellow, c. 11/2× length of involucre. Stigmas yellow. Achenes pale brown; outer achenes smooth or finely muriculate, not beaked, cylindric, 3-4 mm long, with a pappus of scales c. 0.7 mm long; inner achenes muricate, shortly beaked, fusiform, 4-5 mm long, with a pappus of 2 rows of bristles, the outer row short, simple, the inner row 5-7 mm long, plumose, widened at base.