herbaceous or suffruticose, diffusely branched, leafy, thinly gland-pubescent, subviscidulous; leaves sessile, cuneate and half-clasping at base, oblong, obtuse, sinuate-toothed, the teeth callous, with rounded interspaces, margins minutely reflexed; pedicels terminal and axillary, exceeding the leaves, slender, one-headed; inv. sc. biseriate, lanceolate, acuminate, membr.-edged, longer than disc, dorsally scabrous, rays 8–9; young achenes 3-angled. Stems 2–3 ft. long or more, supporting themselves among bushes. Leaves 2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. wide, the teeth very shallow, distant, with rounded interspaces. Pedunc. 2–3 in. long. Rays bright yellow above, coppery-red beneath. Ripe achenes not seen; when half grown they are sharply 3-angled and smoothish.
