Stems 0. Leaves erect to ascending; petioles rarely purplish, petiole margins glabrous or tomentose; blades narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, (7–)10–30 cm, margins usually lobed to pinnatifid, rarely dentate, lobes 5–7(–9) pairs, lanceolate to oblanceolate, spreading to antrorse, lobules sometimes present, faces sparsely to densely hairy. Peduncles not notably elongating after flowering, 10–45 cm in fruit, glabrate, or basally and apically pubescent to villous, mostly stipitate-glandular. Involucres obconic to campanulate, 1.5–2.5 cm in fruit. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, green or medially rosy purple, sometimes purple-black speckled, margins ciliate, faces ± villous, stipitate-glandular; outer erect to spreading, adaxially ± tomentose; inner erect, elongating after flowering. Receptacles epaleate. Florets 50–250; corollas yellow, tubes 3–6 mm, ligules 6–16 × 2–3 mm; anthers 3–5 mm. Cypselae 9–14 mm; bodies fusiform to narrowly conic, 3–5 mm, beaks 6–10 mm, lengths 1–3 times bodies, ribs flattened, ridged, or subalate, straight or slightly undulate; pappus bristles in 3–4 series, (4–)6–10 mm. 2n = 18.
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