Stolons slender, with numerous long simple eglandular hairs and dense stellate hairs. Rosette lvs dull glaucescent green above, white-hairy beneath, oblanceolate, sessile or shortly petiolate, entire or very obscurely dentate, (1.5)-2.5-5-(7) × 0.6-1.5-(1.8) cm, subacute and often apiculate, cuneate at base; upper surface with scattered coarse simple hairs 4-6 mm long; lower surface with fine eglandular hairs 1-2 mm long and very dense stellate hairs. Stem lf 0-(1), scale-like. Flowering stems erect, (2)-5-10-(15) cm tall, with 0-few simple eglandular hairs, numerous short glandular hairs and dense stellate hairs. Capitula solitary; involucre 8-13 mm long; bracts with dense stellate hairs and varying proportions of simple eglandular and glandular hairs. Florets yellow, often with red stripe on outer face, c. 2× length of involucre. Achenes dark, c. 2 × 0.5 mm. Pappus 5-6 mm long.