Herbs 6-15 cm tall, perennial, stemless or shortly stemmed. Caudex 1-1.5 cm in diam., simple. Rosette leaves petiolate; petiole 3-10 cm; leaf blade elliptic, obovate, ovate, or subtriangular, 10-20(-30) × 5-15 cm, pinnately lobed to undivided, green or yellowish green, almost concolorous, sparsely strigose, base subcordate, truncate, or cuneate-attenuate, margin spinulose-dentate to sinuate-denticulate, apex rounded to acuminate; lobes 4-8 pairs, ovate, broadly triangular, or falcate. Upper leaves smaller, pale yellowish green, base cuneate-attenuate, apex acute. Capitula 3-9, clustered in center of leaf rosette, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Involucre campanulate, 2-2.5(-3) cm in diam. Phyllaries in 5 or 6 rows, leathery, glabrous, margin dark brown and scarious; outer phyllaries ovate to elliptic, 7-15 × 5-9 mm, apex rounded to obtuse; middle and inner phyllaries elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 1.5-3 × 0.4-0.7 cm, apex obtuse, acute, or acuminate. Corolla purplish red, 2.3-2.8(-3.5) cm, tube 1.4-2 cm, limb 8-10 mm, lobes 5-6 mm. Achene cylindric, 4-7 mm, 4-angled, apically verrucose. Pappus bristles in many rows, yellowish brown, scabrid to barbellate, 2-2.5 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Nov.
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