It may be unbranched, bifid, or trifid. The points are simple, bifid, or trifid. The style is filiform, and the stigma trifid. The crowns of the lower incisors are trifid, or have three cusps. It presents very small flowers, the male with five stamens, the female trifid style. It may be simple (unbranched) or trifid. The stigma has three (four in "Beauverdia") lobes, or is trifid, and is papillose. Common names include dwarf mountain fleabane, cutleaf daisy, and trifid mountain fleabane. The lower lip is "trifid", the central lobe being larger than the lateral ones. The stigma is short and trifid.