Perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Stems single or several, erect, glabrous, leafy. Leaves alternate, sessile; blade very narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic, linear or ovate, rigid, up to 100 x 20 mm, 3-5-veined, lowermost reduced, upper passing into inflorescence bracts, apex acute to acuminate, mucronate, base broad, half-clasping, margins entire, minutely scabridulous; both surfaces usually smooth, glabrous, lower occasionally scabridulous on nerves. Heads 13-20 mm in diameter, radiate, usually corymbosely arranged, occasionally solitary, terminal; peduncle glabrous. Involucral bracts ± 3-seriate, inner ± equalling pappus, narrowly ovate, keel dark, resinous, glabrous. Receptacle epaleate. Flowers: ray florets female, fertile, mauve or white; disc florets bisexual, yellow; flowering time? Fruit with cypsela elliptic, compressed, hairy and glandular. Pappus biseriate, outer row of short, narrow scales, inner row of long, scabrid bristles.
Perennial herb, up to 0.65 m high, glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, margins denticulate, cartilaginous or entire, sometimes scabrid, nerves prominent. Capitula radiate, 13-20 mm in diam., usually corymbosely arranged on long peduncles; involucral bracts glabrous. Ray florets mauve or white. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time July, Aug. Pappus of outer short scales or bristles, inner long, scabrid bristles. Cypselae elliptic, compressed, thinly hairy,
Perennial herb, up to 0.65 m high. Stems and leaves glabrous, margins scabrid. Heads 13-20 mm across. Involucral bracts glabrous. Flowers mauve or white, disc yellow.