(4-16 inches) tall and producing numerous yellow flower heads borne singly on hairy stalks.

The large, ovate (egg-shaped) ground-leaves have toothed edges and are supported by long, narrow petioles.

The leaves are heavily densely beset with both glandular and non-glandular hairs.

[2][3] This species is found growing in limestone rubble and gravel, such as that on eroding mountain slopes.

It is native to mountainous regions between 1400 and 3400 m in altitude in the Alps, Pyrenees and northern Balkans (nations of Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Albania, Romania, and the western Balkans).