Herbs, perennial, 10-35 cm tall, caespitose; rhizomes robust. Stems erect, simple, sparsely to densely villous, sparsely to moderately minutely stipitate glandular. Leaves basal and cauline, rosette marcescent at anthesis; cauline leaves much reduced upward, sparsely to moderately villous, sometimes sparsely minutely stipitate glandular, 3-veined, main veins ± prominent; basal leaves rosulate, petiolate, obovate to spatulate; lower cauline leaves with petiole winged, sometimes slender, up to 11 cm; blade linear-oblong, 1-10 × 0.4-1.5 cm, base attenuate, margin entire, sometimes undulate, apex rounded; middle cauline leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate to linear, base attenuate. Capitula solitary, terminal, 3-3.5(-5.5) cm in diam.; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 1-veined. Involucres hemispheric, 1.5-2 × 0.6-1 cm; phyllaries 2-or 3-seriate, equal or subequal, rarely unequal, lanceolate to oblong or oblanceolate, 7-10 × 1.5-2.2 mm, abaxially sparsely villous to densely lanate (crosswalls sometimes purple to black), sometimes minutely stipitate glandular, margin sparsely to densely ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse to acute or acuminate; outer phyllaries leaflike or base sometimes hardened; inner phyllaries leaflike distally, margin whitish, sometimes purple-red. Ray florets 26-60, purple to blue or reddish, tube glabrous, sometimes sparsely minutely stipitate glandular near junction with lamina, lamina 10-15 × 2-2.5 mm, glabrous, eglandular; disk florets yellow, 5.5-8.5 mm, limb funnelform, 4.5-6.5 mm, proximally sparsely hairy, sparsely minutely stipitate glandular, lobes spreading, equal, narrowly triangular, 1-1.5 mm. Achenes obovoid, compressed, ca. 3 mm, 2-4-ribbed, moderately to densely strigillose, distally sparsely to moderately minutely stipitate glandular. Pappus 4-seriate, white, barbellate throughout; outermost bristles few, slender, 0.5-1.8 mm; outer bristles slender, 3-4 mm; inner bristles 5-5.5 mm, acute; innermost bristles 6.5-7 mm, weakly clavate. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 18, 27, 35+1 fragm., 36, 37.
Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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