Perennial herb with most leaves in a rosette; flowering stems several, often reddish.. Leaves appressed to the ground or erect, dull to bright green, sessile, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, radical leaves 5–25(–38) cm long, 0.5–4.5 cm wide, base attenuate, margins dentate to coarsely recurved-dentate, less often denticulate or pinnately lobed, apex acute or rounded and mucronate, glabrous or sparsely glandular-setose beneath, sometimes the indument restricted to midrib and veins, occasionally densely setose when young; cauline leaves absent or smaller than radical ones; midrib pallid.. Capitula several per stem in lax corymbs; stalks of individual capitula sparsely pilose or glandular-setose, distally also short-pubescent; involucre 6–11 mm long; phyllaries pale to dark green, lanceolate, 2–10.5 mm, obtuse or acute, with scattered to dense dark or pale setae and usually short-pubescent at least proximally, sometimes glandular, usually restricted to the midrib, distally glabrous or setose, the innermost with narrow dark middle part and broad pale scarious margins wider than the middle part and often keeled and spongy near the base.. Corolla yellow, the ligules reddish or purplish beneath, tube cylindric, 2–5 mm long, (sparsely) pilose, ligule 5–9.5 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide.. Achenes brown to orange-red, cylindrical becoming fusiform, (2–3 mm at anthesis) 5–7.5 mm long, slightly tapered distally, finely ribbed, the ribs antrorsely muricate; pappus 4.5–6 mm long, barbellate.
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