diffuse or ascending, more or less villous; leaves loosely imbricating, oval, oblong, obovate or subrotund, acute or obtuse, entire or sharply few-toothed, villous or glabrous, nerveless, thickish; heads 2–7 at the ends of the leafy branches, subsessile or shortly pedicelled, many-flowered; invol. mostly very villous, campanulate, the outer scales leaflike, as long as the inner and as the disc, oblong or lance-oblong; achenes sharply 5-angled and furrowed; pappus of a few, fragile, jointed, short hairs. A small, many-stemmed bush, 1–2 ft. high, not much branched. Leaves very variable in shape and in pubescence, sometimes very densely clothed on both sides with long, soft hairs; occasionally sharply and deeply few-toothed, the apex often recurved. Heads sometimes solitary, mostly several together, 5 lines long, 4 lines diam. Fl. bright yellow; invol. leaflike, green.
