Plants 10–20(–30) cm. Basal leaves: blades pale green to gray-green, lanceolate or lance-ovate, 5–15(–20+) × 2–5(–10) cm (earliest sometimes, later seldom, pinnately lobed, mostly toward tips), bases usually cuneate to subtruncate, sometimes cordate, margins usually dentate to serrate, apices acute, faces hirsutulous to scabrous. Heads usually borne singly. Involucres campanulate, 15–25 mm diam. Outer phyllaries lanceolate to lance-triangular, 10–22 mm, shorter than inner, apices acute to attenuate (margins ciliate). Ray laminae (20–)30–40. 2n = 38.
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