Erect branching herbs, stems and leaves usually hispid or coarsely hirsute. Leaves radical and cauline. Heads pedunculate, usually in corymbs or panicles. Involucre ovoid-lanceolate or campanulate, inner principal bracts in 1 series, nearly equal, outer bracts many, 2- or 3-seriate, spreading. Receptacle flat, short pilose. Corolla ligulate, yellow, truncate, 5-lobed. Anthers sagittate at base. Style branches slender. Achenes linear or oblong, sometimes angled, 5-10-ribbed, rather abruptly narrowed at apex,sometimes beaked. Pappus usually in a single series, slender, plumose, sometimes also with an outer series of smaller unbranched bristles.
About 40 species in Europe, Asia and North Africa; one species represented by two subspecies in Taiwan.
