Sphagneticola

Perennial herbs with stems erect to prostrate, often rooting at nodes. Leaves opposite or uppermost occasionally alternate, elliptic or oblong-obovate to obovate, entire, weakly lobed or 3-lobed, sometimes serrate-dentate. Capitula radiate, terminal or axillary, solitary, on long peduncles. Involucre campanulate; bracts in 2 or 3 rows, outer herbaceous, inner scarious. Receptacle flat to convex, scaly. Ray florets female, fertile; corolla yellow to orange-yellow. Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow to orange-yellow. Cypselas irregularly warted, minutely puberulous in upper part, with short early-caducous aristae. Pappus cup-shaped and of 1 or 2 awns, or 0.