Annual, dwarf, usually stemless and rarely bearing a few small branches. Leaves are simple, entire, alternate, petiolate, oblong to obovate and obtuse, with the upper leaves forming a whorl below the individual heads. Heads are heterogamous, solitary and radiate, up to 2 cm across, with small, pale yellow ligules. Fruits are silky-haired achenes with a pappus of lanceolate to subulate scales.