Stem very short, clothed, as are the leaves and peduncles, with a thin, white, densely-matted tomentum. Leaves basal, six to twelve inches long by one to one and a half broad, long-petioled, pinnatifid or pinnatisect; lobes oblong, tips rounded, quite entire or obscurely crenate, sinus rounded; lower lobes small, distant, and often decurrent; terminal broader, ovate lobed or lobulate. Peduncle eight inches to a foot high, stout, striate. Head three inches in diameter. Involucre hemispheric, two-thirds of an inch in diameter; outer bracts green, coriaceous, broadly ovate, cuspidate or tips setaceous, closely appressed, tips hairy; intermediate longer, acute or obtuse, herbaceous, with scarious tips and margins; inner twice as long, base green, terminating in a broad, scarious wing, rounded at the tip. Pay-flowers deep orange-red, tube very short; ligule with finger-like red-brown marks at the base. Achenes short, hairy; outer pappus scales short, lacerate, inner much longer, oblong.
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