Herbs 5-17 cm tall, perennial, stemless or shortly stemmed. Caudex to 2 cm in diam., simple. Rosette leaves petiolate; petiole 1-13 cm; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or oblong, 7-20 × 4-19 cm, both surfaces green to yellowish green and densely strigose and gland-dotted, base shallowly cordate to truncate, margin undulate or sparsely spinulose-dentate, apex rounded to acute. Bracts 4-7, sessile, smaller than rosette leaves. Capitulum solitary, in center of leaf rosette, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Involucre campanulate, 4-6(-8) cm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows; outer phyllaries elliptic, narrowly obovate-elliptic, or narrowly ovate-elliptic, 1.5-2.5 × 1-1.3 cm; middle and inner phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 2.5-4 × 0.6-0.8 cm. Corolla purplish red, 3-3.2 cm, tube 2-2.3 cm, limb ca. 1 cm. Achene trigonous, 7-10 mm. Pappus bristles in many rows, yellowish brown, scabrid to barbellate, 2.5-2.8 cm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Oct.
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