Perennials, usually scapigerous herbs. Stem (3–) 5–10 cm long, erect,  occasionally branched, glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy. Leaves basal and cauline, basal leaves sparsely villous to almost glabrous, linear–lanceolate to subspathulate, 1.5–2.5 (–3) cm long (including petiole), 3–5 (–7) mm wide, entire–subentire, acute, cauline leaves sessile, linear–lanceolate, entire, acute, 1–1.3 cm long, 2 – 4 cm wide, uppermost 0.3–0.5 cm long, linear with ciliate margins.  Capitula 1–1.5 (–2) cm across, solitary or 2–5 on each scape–like, hirsute peduncle, arranged in corymbose synflorescence. Involucre campanulate, 0.8–1.2 (–1.5) cm in diameter. Phyllaries 3–seriate, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate–linear, acute–acuminate, outermost 2–3 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide, middle ones 3–4 mm long, ca 1 mm wide, inner ones 4–5 (–5.5) mm long, ca 0.5 mm wide. Ray florets numerous, white, filiform–linear, 8–9 (–10) mm long, twice as long as pappus, ligule bidentate. Female eligulate florets absent. Disc florets yellow, 3.5–4 mm long, tube 1–1.5 mm long, limb 2–2.5 mm long including 0.4–0.6 mm long lobes. Cypselas ca 2 mm long, brown, oblong–narrowly ovate, compressed, sericeous–sparsely hairy. Pappus reddish–brown to dark brown, outer bristles ca 0.5 mm long, inner ones 3–4 (–5) mm long, minutely barbellate.