Herbs to 6 cm tall, perennial, stemless or shortly stemmed. Caudex stout, simple or branched. Rosette leaves petiolate; petiole 1-3 cm; leaf blade elliptic to broadly linear, 2-7 × 0.7-1.3 cm, pinnately divided, abaxially grayish white and densely arachnoid tomentose, adaxially grayish green and arachnoid tomentose, base obtuse to rounded; segments in 3-15 pairs, obtusely triangular, broadly ovate, or semiorbicular; terminal lobe ovate, to 1 cm, apex obtuse. Capitula solitary or to 3, in center of leaf rosette, sessile or subsessile. Involucre campanulate, 2-3 cm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, pale green, apically purplish, leathery, sparsely arachnoid, glabrescent, apex acuminate; outer phyllaries triangular to ovate-triangular, 6-13 × 1.5-2.5 mm; middle and inner phyllaries triangular to narrowly ovate, 1.4-2.5 × 0.3-0.4 cm. Corolla pale purple, 2.1-2.3 cm, tube 1.2-1.5 cm, limb 8-10 mm, lobes 4-6 mm. Style branches linear, ca. 2 mm, divergent, apex obtuse. Achene cylindric, 3-5 mm, wrinkled, glabrous. Pappus bristles in 2-4 rows, basally yellowish brown and apically purplish, scabrid, 1.5-1.6 cm. Fl. Jul.
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