Perennial rosette herb, stoloniferous, the flowering stems to 65 cm high; stems pale-tomentose, with appressed leaves. Leaves of two kinds: rosette leaves narrowly obovate or spatulate, 2–6 cm long, 0.7–2(–3) cm wide, base semi-amplexicaul, margins entire and sometimes revolute, apex acute and mucronate, thinly tomentose and sometimes scabrid above, pale-tomentose beneath; stem leaves lanceolate, 1–4 cm long, 0.3–0.7(–1) cm wide, otherwise similar to rosette leaves. Capitula 15–24 mm long, heterogamous, solitary or up to 3(–6; also see note) together in corymbs; stalks of individual capitula up to 5 mm long; phyllaries white, pink and white, pink or carmine red, multiseriate, lanceolate, 3–18 mm long, acute, glabrous, often with a dark spot of colour proximally; receptacle honeycombed. Florets yellow, many (several hundred); outer florets relatively few, tube filiform from a slightly widened base, 2.1–2.6 mm long, lobes 0.2–0.4 mm long, style 2.7–3.2 mm long; inner florets many, tube cylindrical, 2.5–3 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.4 mm long and glandular, anthers 1.4–1.5 mm long, style 2.8–3.4 mm long. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.8–1 mm long, glabrous; pappus white, 2.5–4 mm long, distally subplumose, caducous individually.
