A small perennial herb with flexuous hairs at base. Leaves 5 - 10 x 1 – 2.5 cm, greyish-green, lobed, lobes runcinate, denticulate, terminal lobe larger. Scapes several, hairy. Involucre 8 – 15 mm long, greyish-green, with usually crisped hairs; outer phyllaries ovate to lanceolate-ovate, recurved, not marginate, with or without cornicles; inner ones linear, with short cornicle. Ligules lemon-yellow, peripheral ones with dark stripes outsides. Cypselas brownish, 4 – 5 mm long, spinulose above, rugose below with 0.8 – 1.4 mm long cone; beak 2.5 – 4.5 mm long; pappus 6 – 7 mm long, white.