Perennial herb with short rhizome, lower part of stem creeping but becoming erect and 20–65 cm tall, subscapiform, pale green or slightly reddish-purple tinged, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, 1–7 cm long, 0.2–1.2 cm wide, attenuate to an exauriculate base, margins remotely sinuate-denticulate or sinuate-serrate, apex obtuse, apiculate, sparsely shortly setulose or hispid, bright green above, paler beneath, sometimes with purplish margin. Capitula solitary, terminal, erect, long-stalked, discoid; stalks of the individual capitula pilose at least in upper part; involucre cylindrical, 8–11 mm long, 3.5–5 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus ± 6, lanceolate, green or purple, 2.5–3 mm long; phyllaries 13–18(–21), purple or green tipped purple or brown, 7–10 mm long, glabrous or shortly sparsely pubescent. Ray florets 0; disc florets orange-yellow or orange; corolla 7.5–11 mm long, tube glabrous, gradually expanded above the middle, lobes 0.8–1 mm long. Achenes 3–4 mm long, glabrous; pappus 6.5–10 mm long.