Beaked Hawk's-beard has bright yellow flowers with red streaks on the underside of the outer florets. It is covered in downy hairs. The seeds have long beaks.
Like all hawksbeards, it has two rows of involucre bracts, where bracts in the outer row are shorter and are spread out from the base.

Flower underside, showing red streaks on petals and two rows of involucre bracts		Beaked seeds		Basal leaves