Herbs 25-50 cm tall. Rhizome long, stout. Stems solitary or tufted, unbranched or apically branched, glabrous. Leaves ± thickly papery, green, subconcolorous, glabrous, undivided, apex acuminate to subacute. Basal and lowermost cauline leaves withered at anthesis. Lower and middle cauline leaves ± narrowly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-10 × 2-4 cm, base rounded and semiamplexicaul. Upper cauline leaves similar but smaller. Capitula 1 to several. Involucre campanulate to obconic-campanulate, ca. 1 cm in diam. Phyllaries imbricate, abaxially glabrous, apex obtuse to rounded; outer phyllaries ovate, 2-4 × 1-2 mm; middle phyllaries gradually longer; innermost phyllaries ± narrowly oblanceolate, ca. 11 × 4 mm. Corolla white, ca. 8 mm. Achene obovoid, ca. 4 mm. Pappus brown, 6-7 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug.
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