Plants 30-70+ cm (perennating bases ± erect, internodes not winged). Leaves all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); blades ovate-deltate or ovate to lance-ovate, 2-6 × 1-5 cm, bases rounded to cuneate, margins toothed to entire, apices obtuse to acute, faces ± scabrellous. Heads borne singly. Involucres ± hemispheric, 15-22+ mm diam. Phyllaries 24-30+ in 3-4 series, ± erect, oblong, orbiculate, or ovate, 5-12+ mm. Ray florets ± 13; laminae 25 mm. Disc florets 80-120+; corollas yellow. Cypselae dark brown, narrowly elliptic, 7 mm, faces glabrous; pappi 0-0.5 mm. 2n = 34.

Flowering (May-)Sep-Nov. Shaded slopes, limestone, juniper scrublands; 100-500 m; Tex.