Herbs 10-25[-30] cm tall, perennial, rosulate, with taproot sometimes shoot-bearing. Caudex 1-3 cm, covered with brown leaf bases of former leaves, simple or branched and thus with 1 or few leaf rosettes. Stems one or a few, slender, ascending to erect, simple or forked, sparsely white arachnoid hairy apically [sometimes additionally with long dark green to blackish glandular hairs], usually ± leafless. Rosette leaves numerous, oblanceolate to elliptic, 4-8 × 0.5-1 cm, shallowly pinnatifid to pinnatisect, abaxially weakly white arachnoid hairy [sometimes additionally with glandular hairs], base attenuate into a petiole-like portion, margin sinuate-dentate or entire; lateral lobes narrowly triangular, lanceolate, or sublinear, apex acute; terminal lobe triangular to lanceolate, apex acute. Stem leaves 0-2, ± linear, reduced in size, margin entire, apex acute. Capitula 1 or 2 per stem, with many florets. Involucre narrowly campanulate, 9-12 × 5-8 mm. Phyllaries abaxially white arachnoid hairy especially along midvein [sometimes additionally with long dark green to blackish glandular hairs]; outer phyllaries linear-lanceolate, longest ca. 5 mm, apex acute; inner phyllaries ca. 12, adaxially appressed hairy, margin scarious, apex acute. Anther tube ca. 4 mm. Achene orangish brown, fusiform, 5-6 mm, straight or subcurved, with 10-15 ribs, apex weakly attenuate. Pappus white, 4-6 mm. Fl. Jul.
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