Subshrubs or perennial herbs, 40-60(-75) cm tall, with thick, creeping rhizomes. Stems single to several, usually not branched, gray sericeous or stems glabrescent. Basal leaves deciduous by anthesis. Middle stem leaves: petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade elliptic or ovate, 3-5 × 2-4 cm, 2-pinnatisect; segments 4(-6) pairs, distal lobes 3-lobulate or subpalmatisect; lobules linear or linear-lanceolate, 10-17 × 1.5-2 mm, apex acute. Uppermost leaves and bracts pinnatisect or 3-5-sect. Synflorescence a ± narrow, racemelike panicle. Capitula shortly pedunculate, nodding. Involucre hemispheric, (4-)5-6(-9) mm in diam.; phyllaries with narrow white scarious margin; receptacle hemispheric, densely pubescent. Marginal female florets 10-14; corolla narrowly conical or tubular, 2-or 3-toothed. Disk florets 40-80, bisexual; corolla limb puberulent. Achenes ellipsoid or ellipsoid-ovoid. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct. 2n = 18.
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