White wooly perennial rhizomatous herbs. Leaves all radical, petiolate, usually appearing after the flowers, orbicular to cordate, toothed. Scapes with a single capitulum, bearing scaly leaves. Capitulum radiate. Involucre calyculate, phyllaries 1-seriate. Ray florets yellow, female, many-seriate, fertile; disc florets bisexual but functionally male, tubular-campanulate, corolla 5-lobed, cypselas oblong-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, glabrous, pappus scabrid, white.