Descriptions : Herb Small, upright herb, with several branches; hairs on stem; leaves alternate, sessile, lyrate, with rounded lobes, dentate; upper and lower surfaces with short, bristly hairs; inflorescence a terminal, pedunculate head; involucre of approximately 3 rows of bracts, outer bracts often oblong; bracts with hairs on outer surface; receptacular bracts (pales) lacking; head of many flowers, all disk flowers; marginal flowers unisexual, female, in a few outer rows; pappus a bristly cup-like rim; corolla a narrow tube with distal lobes; ovary inferior; 2 stigma lobes; central flowers bisexual, many; pappus a bristly cup-like rim; corolla yellow or green, funnel-shaped, with 5 lobes; larger than corolla of marginal flowers; stamens 5, base of anther not sagittate; ovary inferior, with granular glands; 2 stigma lobes.
