Stolons slender, with numerous long simple eglandular hairs and numerous stellate hairs. Rosette lvs green, oblanceolate to obovate, sessile or shortly petiolate, entire or obscurely dentate, 4-12 × 1.5-3 cm, subacute and often apiculate, cuneate at base; upper surface with numerous simple hairs 3-5 mm long; lower surface with fine eglandular hairs 1-2 mm long and numerous stellate hairs. Stem lf usually 1, small. Flowering stems erect, (5)-15-30-(50) cm tall, with numerous spreading simple eglandular hairs 3-6 mm long throughout, few to numerous short glandular hairs above, and stellate hairs numerous below and dense above. Peduncles > 3 cm long at flowering. Capitula 1-2 per stem; involucre (7)-8-11 mm long; bracts with dense simple eglandular hairs, few to numerous glandular hairs, and dense stellate hairs. Florets orange, purple when dry, not striped on outer face, c. 2× length of involucre. Achenes dark, c. 2 × 0.5 mm. Pappus sordid, up to 7 mm long.