Prostrate or suberect, villous herb; stem ascending, angular, pubescent, spreading from root stock; branches long, forming circular patches on ground; leaves alternate, sessile, sinuately pinnatifid, lobes distantly toothed, basal leaves up to 5 cm long, gradually smaller towards apex,densely clothed with long or short hairs; heads yellow, solitary, terminal or leaf opposed, on peduncle 2-3 cm long; involucrel broadly campanulate, bracts few seriate, outer herbaceous, oblong, acute, longer than corolla tube, inner elliptic-rounded; receptacle convex or conic, naked; florets not rayed; 1-many seriate, outer ones female, fertile, filiform, 2-fid, inner 2-4 fid, bisexual, fertile, tube very slender, limb 4-5 cleft; anther base obtuse; style arms of bisexual florets cuneate, obtuse with triangular points; achenes flattened or subterete, brown; pappus cupular, hairs connate into a cylindrical fimbriate tube.