Perennial herbs, 20–45 (–100) cm tall. Stem procumbent – ascending or erect, densely branched, branches angular, slender, forming interlaced mats, often with purple ting, sparsely strigose – glabrous, eglandular. Basal leaves withering at anthesis or absent; lower leaves elliptic –obovate or oblanceolate, on ca 3 mm long, winged petiole, lamina, 2–4 (–5) cm long, 1.2–2.3 cm wide, 3–5 lobed on either side, acute, cuneate at the base, serrate – somewhat entire,  cauline leaves similar to lower leaves, 1–2.5 (–3) cm long, 0.5–1.5 cm wide, sparsely strigose–pilose, acute with a callose apex, upper most elliptic, 1–2 cm long, 0.2–0.4 cm wide, acute, sessile. Capitula axillary or terminal, solitary or 2–5 at the end of each branch, in lax panicles, 1–1.5 (–2) cm across. Involucre hemispheric – campanulate, 6–10 mm in diameter. Phyllaries 3–4–seriate, almost equal, outer ones 1.5–2 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, lanceolate–linear, acute–acuminate, inner phyllaries 3–4 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, linear, acuminate, membranous, erose. Ray florets white–pink, 6–8 mm long, corolla tube 1.5–2 mm long, flat or slightly coiled, bidentate. Eligulate female florets absent. Disc florets yellow, funnel–like, tube 1.5–2 mm long, limb 1.5–2 mm long including 0.3–0.5 mm long glabrous lobes, somewhat pilose at the tips. Cypselas 0.8–1.5 mm long, brown, oblong–ellipsoid, compressed, sparsely sericeous–strigose. Outer bristles of pappus ca 0.5 mm long, inner ones 2–3 mm long, white, barbellate.