Stems erect or ascending, stout, 10–150 cm. Leaf faces glabrous or nearly so or abaxial ± villous with septate trichomes. Heads several–many, usually subsessile or short-pedunculate, crowded in erect. spiciform or racemiform arrays, less commonly openly branched. Involucres 2–4 cm, loosely to densely villous with septate trichomes and thinly arachnoid with non-septate trichomes. Phyllaries green; outer with few or no lateral spines; apical spines stout. Corollas pink to purple, 21–25 mm, tubes 6.5–8 mm, throats 8–11.5 mm, lobes 5.5–7 mm. Pappi 17–22 mm. 2n = 34 (as C. peckii).
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