Perennials, 1–15 cm; fibrous-rooted, caudices usually simple, rarely branched. Stems erect to basally ascending, villoso-hirsute to ascending-strigose, minutely and inconspicuously glandular. Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline; blades spatulate to oblanceolate-spatulate, 15–60 × 3–13 mm, cauline reduced distally, becoming bractlike, margins entire, faces finely hirsuto-villous to loosely strigose, eglandular. Heads 1. Involucres (5–)6–8 × 8–15 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series (purple), sparsely to densely woolly-villous (at least margins), sparsely minutely glandular. Ray florets 30–50(–68); corollas yellow, 6–9(–10) mm, laminae tardily coiling. Disc corollas 3–3.8 mm. Cypselae 1.6–2 mm, 2-nerved, faces loosely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 14–25 bristles. 2n = 18.
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