root slender, perpendicular, annual! stems many from the crown, short, diffuse, leafy, cobwebbed; leaves obovato-spathulate, tapering into a petiole, entire or bluntly 3–5-lobed, cobwebby-tomentose, becoming nude above, as well as the petiole serrato-ciliate, mucronate; pedunc. slender, glabrous, longer than the leaves; inv. glabrous, cylindro-turbinate, at base produced into a hollow, truncate, reversed cup, the lobes biseriate, outer very short, deltoid, inner longer, ovate-acuminate or ovato-semilanceolate, acute. Root tapering, 2–4 inches long, with lateral fibres. Stems 2–4 in. long, spreading. Leaves 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 2–4 l. wide, often crenate-lobed. Heads small; inv. 3/4 inch long, 3–5 l. wide at top, rays 8–10, broad, golden-yellow, with a dark spot at base, and on the under side a medial, greenish band.
