Plants subshrubs, mostly spreading, 1–5 dm tall, 2–6 dm across; aerial flowering stems erect, 1–3 dm long, thinly tomentose to nearly glabrous, without one or more foliaceous bracts about midlength; leaves in rather open rosettes, the blades usually elliptic, 1–2 (2.5) cm long, 0.5–1.5 cm wide, thinly tomentose to floccose abaxially, less so to thinly floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, the margins plane; inflorescences umbellate, the branches 0.3–3 (5) cm long, thinly tomentose to subglabrous, without a whorl of bracts about midlength; involucral tubes 2–3.5 mm long, the lobes 1.5–3.5 mm long; flowers 4–7 mm long, the perianth bright yellow. 2n = 80.