Plants (15–)20–60 cm. Basal leaves: blades green, rounded-deltate or deltate to triangular-deltate, 15–25 × 6–15 cm, bases cordate or hastate to truncate, margins usually entire, sometimes crenate (to dentate near bases), apices acute to attenuate, faces finely hispidulous to hirtellous (gland-dotted as well). Heads usually (2–)3+, sometimes borne singly. Involucres hemispheric to turbinate or campanulate, 12–20 mm diam. Outer phyllaries oblong to lanceolate or linear, 15–25 mm, usually surpassing inner, apices acute to attenuate. Ray laminae 20–30(–40) mm (cypselae strigose or glabrous). 2n = 38.