Plants 12-60(-90) cm. Stems sparsely pubescent proximally, glabrate distally. Leaves: blades of basal leaves ovate-orbiculate, (3-)6-14 × 3-6.5(-8.5) cm, bases cordate, margins crenate to subentire, faces (and petioles) sparsely hairy; cauline leaves 1-2(-3), sessile, blades ovate to lanceolate, bases clasping. Heads borne singly, 25-68 mm diam. Peduncles 45-150 mm. Phyllaries linear-lanceolate, 8-14(-18) mm, lengths about ¹ / 2 rays, apices acute. Ray corollas 12-28 mm. 2n = 60.

Flowering Mar-May. Moist woods, shaded rocky outcrops; 0-100+ m; introduced; B.C., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.); Europe.

Doronicum orientale appears not to have persisted in British Columbia or Newfoundland.