Plants 20-100 cm; caudices branched, woody. Stems 1-5+, erect, puberulent. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline tapering to long petioles, blades oblanceolate to obovate, 50-150 × 10-50 mm, margins serrate, apices acute, faces puberulent; mid to distal cauline sessile, blades lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 10-50 × 3-10 mm, reduced distally, margins becoming entire , apices acute. Heads 15-250 , not secund, in elongate, paniculiform arrays, lateral racemiform clusters short and ascending, sometimes lateral branches elongated and sharply ascending. Peduncles 1.5-3 mm. Involucres campanulate, 3-5 mm. Phyllaries in 3-4 series, appressed, unequal, linear, attenuate, puberulent. Ray florets 9-16 (orange-yellow); laminae 3.5-4.2 × 0.4-0.6 mm. Disc florets (6-)10-15; corollas 2.8-3 mm, lobes 0.5-0.8 mm. Cypselae 0.8-1.3 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose; pappi 2.2-2.6 mm.