Herbs 15-30 cm tall, perennial, rosulate. Rhizomes short. Stem erect, branched from base or higher up, glabrous or white pubescent. Rosette leaves glabrous or pubescent, margin ± entire. Early leaves with distinct 1.3-3 cm petiole; leaf blade triangular-ovate, 1-1.8 × 0.6-0.8 cm, base sagittate, truncate, or cuneate, apex obtuse to acute. Leaf blade of later rosette leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 4-8.5 × 0.3-0.8 cm, undivided to rarely weakly pinnatifid with few triangular lobes, base gradually attenuate, apex acute to long acuminate. Stem leaves similar to later rosette leaves, narrowly ovate-elliptic to narrowly lanceolate; uppermost leaves bractlike. Synflorescence loosely racemiform or paniculiform, glabrous or pubescent, with few to some capitula. Capitula with usually 4-7 florets. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 6-8 × 1.5-2 mm. Phyllaries glabrous or pubescent; outer phyllaries ovate to lanceolate, longest ca. 4 × 1 mm, apex acute; inner phyllaries apically blackish purple, apex obtuse. Florets blue. Achene fusiform and apically attenuate, ca. 4 mm, somewhat compressed. Pappus 4-5 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep.
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