A small annual, up to 25 cm tall, appressed grayish hairy herb with suberect branches. Leaves cauline, shortly petiolate, lamina ovate, 15 – 20 x 6 – 10 mm, 1-2-pinnatisect into 2-3 mm long, acute ultimate segments. Peduncles filiform, 8 – 10 cm long, slightly thickened upwards in fruit. Capitula radiate, 10 – 12 mm across. Phyllaries oblong, 2 – 3 x c. 1 mm, appressed hairy outside, broadly membranous-margined, obtuse, deciduous. Receptacle conical, c. 2 mm long, chaffy in the upper half, paleae subulate, 2.5 – 3 x 0.5 mm, hyaline, deciduous. Ray-florets 5 – 6, female, fertile, ligules white, elliptic, 4 – 5 x 3 – 4 mm, tridentate at the apices. Disc-florets yellow, c. 2 mm long, corolla tube terete, ± inflated in the fruit. Cypselas cylindrical, 2.5 – 3 mm long, ± curved, 10-15-ribbed, outer tuberculate-muricate, deciduous, with a 10-15-dentate rim, the inner ones with a unilateral, oblique, ± lacerate auricle.