Herbs, biennial, 50-60 cm tall, taprooted. Stems erect, sometimes decumbent, branched from lower part; branches ascending, sparsely to moderately (upward) villous-strigose, strigillose, with sessile glands upward. Leaves thick, margin entire, strigose-ciliate; basal leaves rosulate, withered by anthesis; blade spatulate-oblong, 8-15 × 3-6 cm, glabrous or glabrate, base attenuate, apex rounded; cauline leaves spatulate-oblong or narrowly obovate to oblong, 2.5-4.5 × 0.8-1.7 cm, glabrate, base cuneate, margin entire, strigose-ciliate, apex rounded; uppermost leaves remote, oblanceolate, gradually reduced, 0.5-1.2 × 0.2-0.4 cm. Capitula radiate or sometimes discoid, terminal, solitary on branches, forming open paniculate-corymbiform synflorescences, ca. 25 mm in diam. Involucres hemispheric, 0.6-1 cm in diam.; phyllaries 2-seriate, subequal, lanceolate to spatulate or oblanceolate (inner), 5-6 mm, ± strigose, margin sometimes partly scarious, strigose-ciliate, apex acute to acuminate. Ray florets sometimes absent, whitish, ca. 10 × 1.3-3 mm, tube 1-1.7 mm, sparsely hairy; disk florets 3-4.5 mm, tube 0.8-1.5 mm, tube and limb hairy, limb narrowly campanulate to campanulate, lobes unequal, 1 longer, 0.4-0.6(-1.3) mm, minutely with sessile glands and/or strigose-hairy. Achenes obovoid to broadly obovoid, compressed, 1.8-2.5 mm, strigose. Pappus of ray florets whitish, lacerate scales 0.4-1(-1.5) mm, of disk florets reddish, stout bristles 1.8-2.5(-3.5) mm.
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