Plants with
several stems 0.2-9 dm tall; basal leaves 3-30 cm long, lanceolate, rucinate-pinnatifid
or lyrately pinnate, petiolate, with short yellow hairs; cauline leaves sessile,
reduced above; inflorescence corymbiform, heads several to many 20-60 flowered,
pedunculate, involucres 5-8 mm high; outer bracts shorter than the inner, inner
8-16 sometimes with black glandular hairs; receptacle glabrous; achenes fusiform
and beakless; pappus 3-4 mm long; lawns, meadows, waste places.