An erect leafy pallid perennial shrub-like herb, 4 ft. high or more, from a thickened root covered with tomentose tubercles and giving off elongated fibres. Stem simple or nearly so, sulcate and striate, puberulous. Stem-leaves ovate-lanceolate oval or upper lanceolate, sessile, amplexicaul, subobtuse at the apiculate apex, broad and somewhat or scarcely auriculate at the base, denticulate with triangular apiculate teeth, 2 1/2–7 in. long. Capitula campanulate, 3/8– 5/8 in. long, on pedicels of 1/4–1 1/4 in., in a corymbose thinly lanate cyme. Calyculus of a few filiform bracts, 1/3– 1/2 of the length of the involucre. Involucral bracts 13–15, linear, thinly pilose, with a dark tip, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, arising from a thickened disk which is ultimately conspicuous. Ligule of the ray-florets orange, linear, about 1/4 in. long. Corolla of disk-florets with a conical base terminating upwards in a slender constriction. Achenes pale, glabrous, costate, 1/6 in. long.