Herbaceous perennial with long creeping roots that function like rhizones; stems glabrous, glaucous, 20-30 cm tall; leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, 6-7 cm long, 1.0-1.3 cm wide, tip acute, margins undulate, surface glabrous and glaucous, bluish-green; heads one to few; disk 1.0-1.8 cm in diameter; phyllaries lanceolate, ciliate on margins, glabrous to puberulent on backs, 2.0-2.7 mm broad; rays yellow, few, small; disk corollas yellow; pales acute, entire; pappus of 2 ovate scales; achenes about 3 mm long. Flowers June through August.