Perennials (from woody rootstocks) or subshrubs, 20-50 cm. Stems scabrid to sparsely tomentulose, distally stipitate-glandular. Leaves sessile; blades widely oblong to oblanceolate, 25-50 × 7-16 mm, subcoriaceous, bases subclasping (distal), margins serrate, apices acute, faces glabrous, sparsely puberulent, or glandular-scabrid. Heads borne singly or in spiciform, racemiform, or cymiform arrays. Involucres campanulate, 11-13 × 8-12 mm. Phyllaries sometimes recurved, linear-lanceolate, apices acute, herbaceous and stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 0 or 5-18, sterile; corollas longer than involucres, conspicuous. Disc florets 15-30; corollas 8-10 mm. Cypselae 5-10 mm, glabrous.