Annuals, 10-45(-80) cm, hirsute to woolly. Leaves: basal lance-olate to oblanceolate, 4-9 cm × 15-25 mm, margins pinnatifid to pinnatisect; distal cauline smaller (sessile, bases clasping, margins entire). Peduncles (10-)18-22 cm, with 3 or more leaves. Phyllaries: outer spreading linear (bases ± broad), abaxial faces arachnose to hirsute; inner appressed ± lanceolate (apices rounded, hyaline, ciliate). Ray florets 35-50 in 2 series; corolla laminae 30-55, 4-7 mm, adaxial faces orange to yellow (outer unmarked or with smaller or less distinct marks, inner marked basally with purple-brown fans ¹/8-¹/4 their lengths). Cypselae ovoid, 1.3-1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 0 or coroniform. 2n = 18.

Flowering spring-summer. Roadsides, urban waste places; 0-500 m; introduced; Calif.; Africa.