Perennials, 15–70 cm; taprooted. Stems branched proximally, leafy proximally. Leaves basal and cauline; petiolate (petioles broadly winged, clasping); blades linear to oblanceolate, 6–35 cm, margins entire, dentate, or pinnately lobed, apices acuminate. Peduncles erect or arcuate-ascending (15–50 cm), ebracteate. Involucres ovoid in fruit, 10–20 mm. Phyllaries: not spotted, abaxial faces usually scurfy-puberulent, usually black-villous; outer linear to broadly or narrowly ovate-deltate, apices erect or recurved, acuminate; inner lanceolate, apices erect, acute to acuminate. Florets 25–70; corollas yellow-orange, surpassing phyllaries by 5+ mm. Cypselae columnar, 4–7 mm; pappi of 5–10, dull yellowish brown, lanceolate, glabrous, aristate scales 2–4 mm, aristae barbellate. 2n = 18.
