Perennials, 7-15 cm (stems and leaves floccose-tomentose or unevenly glabrate, distal stems and bases of phyllaries brown-woolly; rhizomes creeping). Stems single or loosely clustered. Leaves basal and cauline; petioles wingless or weakly winged (1-4 cm); blades ovate to subrhombic, 1-3 × 1-2 cm, margins usually irregularly toothed, sometimes subentire (proximal cauline leaves similar, petioles winged; distal leaves smaller, sessile, clasping, bractlike). Heads 1(-2). Involucres ± abruptly contracted to peduncles. Phyllaries 13(-21), greenish (tips greenish or purplish, usually obscured by dense, brown indument), 7-10 mm. Ray florets (0-)13; laminae 7-12+ mm. Disc florets 30-50; corollas yellow or light yellow. Cypselae glabrous; pappi white or whitish. 2n = 48, 96.

Flowering May-Aug. Wet soils, tundra meadows, ridges, scree slopes; 0-2000 m; N.W.T., Yukon; Alaska; e Asia (Russian Far East).