Biennials or perennials, 20–50 cm; taprooted (rosettes developing along previous season’s growth at soil level). Stems 1, decumbent or ascending to erect, simple or branched (robust plants), proximally woolly, distally either woolly or densely stipitate-glandular. Leaves: basal sessile, blades oblanceolate, obtuse, 17–100 × 9–12 mm, apically sparsely dentate-serrate, faces long-woolly; cauline blades ovate to linear-lanceolate, 18–34 × 6–17 mm, either abruptly or gradually reduced proximal to arrays, bases sometimes strongly clasping, margins entire, apices acute, faces woolly or glabrous, densely stipitate-glandular. Heads 5–15(–25) (nodding in bud) in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. Peduncles 2–8 cm, densely stipitate-glandular; bracteoles lanceolate to linear, either glabrous and densely stipitate-glandular or densely woolly and stipitate-glandular. Involucres campanulate, 9–12 mm. Phyllaries in 4–5 series, unequal, linear-lanceolate, 0.8–1.1 mm wide, apices spreading to recurved, attenuate to long-attenuate, faces densely stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 16–36; laminae 10–15 mm. Disc florets 40–90; corollas 6–8 mm, lobes 0.5–1 mm. Cypselae 2–2.5 mm, without ridges, shallowly ribbed, faces moderately strigose; pappi in 3 series, outer of linear scales 0.3–0.8 mm, inner of 30–35 bristles 6–7 mm, inner weakly clavate. 2n = 10.
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