Herbs, perennial, 50-70(-90) cm tall, rootstock horizontally creeping to obliquely rising, ± woody, shortly branched apically, pubescent, glabrescent. Basal leaves long petiolate. Lower and middle stem leaves: petiole 3-12 mm; leaf blade elliptic-oblong or elliptic-ovate, 3-12 × 1.5-5(-8) cm, sparsely gland-dotted, abaxially densely hairy, adaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy, 2-or 3-pinnatisect; segments 6-8 pairs; lobes pectinately lobulate; lobules elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes sparsely serrulate; rachis narrowly winged. Uppermost leaves and leaflike bracts 1-or 2-pinnatisect or entire; bracts linear or linear-lanceolate. Synflorescence a few to many branched panicle, 10-15 × 4-8 cm. Capitula many, shortly pedunculate, nodding, approximate or not. Involucre globose or hemispheric, 2-3(-3.5) mm in diam.; phyllaries glabrous or nearly so, outermost oblong-oval, greenish, scarious margin narrow, brown with colorless edge. Florets yellow, 48-52. Marginal female florets 8-15; corolla narrowly tubular, glandular. Disk florets 30-40, bisexual; corolla limb puberulent. Achenes ellipsoid-obovoid, finely longitudinally striate. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct.
Forest steppe, steppe, meadows, outer forest margins, saline soils, hills and shrublands; from low elevations to 2,400 metres in China.
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