Herbs, perennial, 2-8 cm tall, sometimes caespitose; rootstock woody, collar densely clad by marcescent leaf remains. Stems 2 or 3 or many, pilose. Leaves white villous; basal leaves dense, rosulate, petiolate, petiole 1-2 cm, base clasping; blade 1-2 cm, bipinnatisect; lobes 3-5 pairs, 5-7 mm, each with 3-8 pairs of secondary segments, 1-3 cm; cauline leaves 3 or 4, similar to but smaller than basal leaves, pinnatisect. Involucres 2.5-3.5 cm in diam.; phyllaries unequal, purplish at tips, villous; outer phyllaries 6-7 × ca. 0.75 mm; inner phyllaries 9-10 × 0.8-1 mm. Ray florets 20-35, pale mauve, tube 2.5-3 mm, lamina 1.3-1.5 × ca. 0.2 cm; disk florets yellow, 5.5-6 mm, tube ca. 1.6 mm, lobes ca. 1 mm. Achenes ca. 1.5 × 0.5 mm. Pappus: outer bristles ca. 1 mm; inner bristles slender. Fl. Jul.
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