Stems 0. Leaves mostly decumbent to prostrate; petioles rarely purplish, margins not ciliate; blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 2–10(–14) cm, margins usually dentate to lobed or laciniately pinnatifid, rarely entire, lobes 2–3 pairs, linear to oblanceolate, proximal lobes often retrorse, distal often antrorse, lobules often present, faces mostly puberulent to villous, sometimes glabrous and glaucous. Peduncles not elongating after flowering, 2–25 cm in fruit, basally lanate, apically stipitate-glandular. Involucres obconic to campanulate, 1–2 cm in fruit. Phyllaries in 2–4(–6) series, usually rosy purple, rarely green, sometimes spotted, often with a purple-black midstripes, unequal, faces ± hairy, stipitate-glandular; outer usually erect, sometimes spreading apically, adaxially glabrous; inner erect, not elongating after flowering. Receptacles epaleate, rarely paleate (outer florets only). Florets 10–40; corollas yellow, tubes 4–10 mm, ligules 5–11 × 2–4 mm; anthers 3–5 mm. Cypselae 6–10 mm; bodies fusiform, 6–9 mm, beaks 1–3 mm, lengths to 1/2 times bodies; ribs ridged to flattened, straight; pappus bristles in 2 series, 8–11 mm. 2n = 18, 36.
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