Perennial herb, with a small woody rootstock and annual stems 0.6–1 m high; stems reddish, glabrous (elsewhere sometimes pubescent), leafy in the lower part. Leaves green with reddish margins, petiolate, the petiole 0.5–2 cm long, blade narrowly oblong, 2–6 cm long, 0.3–0.8 cm wide, base attenuate, margins entire or dentate, apex obtuse or subacute, glabrous or thinly pilose. Capitula 6–12 mm long, solitary or in lax, few-headed corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 3–9 cm long, slender, distally pubescent; phyllaries pale green with reddish tips, ovate to lanceolate, 2–6 mm long, acute, ciliate and sparsely pilose; receptacle paleae 3 mm long. Florets orange-yellow; outer florets ± 16, with tube cylindric, 0.6–1.5 mm long, ray 5–9 mm long, 1–2.2 mm wide, style 2.5–2.8 mm long; inner florets many, tube slightly infundibuliform, 3–3.5 mm long, lobes 0.4–0.5 mm long, anthers 1.5–1.7 mm long, style 3.3–3.5 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 1.6–1.7 mm long, sparsely pilose; pappus of squamae 0.3–0.7 mm long.
