Herbs 15-35 cm tall, perennial, ± rosulate. Caudex strong, with residues of old leaf bases, brown lanate in leaf axils. Stem erect or curved-erect, usually branched apically, densely setose with brownish to purplish spreading hairs, moderately leafy. Rosette leaves (present or not at anthesis) and lower stem leaves oblanceolate to elliptic, 7-18 × 1.5-4 cm, undivided and coarsely sinuate-dentate or runcinate-dentate to pinnatifid, abaxially densely and adaxially sparsely setose with brownish to purplish spreading hairs, base attenuate into a cuneately winged petiole-like portion and semiamplexicaul, margin sinuate-dentate, apex acute to acuminate; lateral lobes triangular, ± retrorse, apex acute. Middle and upper stem leaves similar to lower leaves but smaller, base without a petiole-like portion but semiamplexicaul. Synflorescence densely corymbiform, with 10-20 capitula. Capitula erect, with 9-13 florets; peduncle 2-8 mm, densely setose with brownish to purplish spreading hairs. Involucre cylindric, 1-1.1 cm. Phyllaries abaxially brownish to purplish setose along midvein; outer phyllaries triangular to lanceolate, longest 2.5-3 mm, apex acute; inner phyllaries ca. 8, with thin scarious margin, apex acute. Florets yellow. Achene pale brown, 4.5-5.5 mm, with ca. 12 unequal ribs, glabrous, apex truncate. Pappus pale brown, 5-7 mm. Fl and fr. Jul-Oct.
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