Perennial, stoloniferous herb. Leaves rosetted or densely clustered at base; lamina obovate, 10–35 mm long, 5–25 mm long, tapered to (often purplish) petiole-like base about as long as lamina, pilose to glabrescent; margins shallowly crenate or serrate. Peduncle erect, ebracteate, c. 3–20 cm long, variably pilose; involucral bracts ovate, 3–6 mm long; receptacle convex (hollow and conical in fruit); ligules spreading, white, often reddish-tipped, 4–10 mm long; tubular florets yellow. Cypselas obovate, 1–1.6 mm long, shortly appressed-hairy; pappus absent. Flowers most of year (rarely in winter).