Plants 6–40 cm; proximal indument grayish, arachnoid to sparsely lanuginose. Stems mostly 1–5, erect to spreading; branches proximal and, often, distal. Leaves basal (often withering) and ± cauline, 1–6(–10) cm; largest blades ± 3-dimensional, scarcely succulent, usually 2-pinnately lobed; primary lobes 2–7 pairs, remote to ± congested, ultimate lobes ± involute and/or twisted. Heads mostly (1–)2–5 per stem. Peduncles 2–7(–9) cm. Involucres ± hemispheric to broadly cylindric. Phyllaries: longest 6–10 × 1.5–2.5 mm; outer glabrescent to sericeous and, often, ± glandular in fruit. Florets: inner corollas 4.5–7 mm. Cypselae 4–9 mm; pappi of (5–)8 scales in 2, abruptly unequal series, longest scales mostly 2–7 mm, lengths 0.4–0.9(–1) times corollas. 2n = 12.
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