Slender, perennial herb, with creeping underground stems, producing several, erect, flowering stems up to 0.3 m high, glabrous. Leaves alternate, radical and cauline; radical leaves petiolate, oblanceolate, both surfaces coarsely hairy, entire; cauline leaves decreasing in size, upper leaves linear to filiform, 1-nerved, margins entire, thickened, scabrid, surfaces glabrous. Capitula radiate, solitary, terminal, pedunculate, small; involucral bracts glabrous, margins fimbriate. Ray florets pale lilac. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time Nov. Pappus of outer short scales and inner scabrid bristles.