Description
Clasping Groundsel is a glabrous herb with several lax to ascending stems that are 1-2 dm tall and arising from a short rhizome and fibrous roots. The few narrowly elliptic basal leaves are 5-18 cm long and have petioles and coarsely toothed margins. The alternate stem leaves are similar but smaller upward, and the uppermost lack petioles. Flowers are borne in 1-3 terminal, nodding heads. The heads have a single series of ca. 21 non-overlapping, narrow, pointed, involucral bracts that are 10-15 mm long. Disk flowers are yellow, and the 8-13 yellow rays are 1-2 cm long. The achene is glabrous with a pappus at its summit.