Perennials, 3–20(–30) cm; taprooted, caudex branches relatively short and thick. Stems erect, loosely to closely, sparsely to moderately strigose (hairs 0.1–0.9 mm), usually minutely glandular (glands barely evident), sometimes eglandular. Leaves basal (usually persistent) and cauline (petioles prominently ciliate at least on proximal portions, hairs spreading, thick-based); basal blades linear-oblanceolate, 20–100 × 1–4 mm, margins entire, faces strigose, eglandular; cauline usually restricted to proximal 1 / 2 of stems, slightly reduced distally. Heads 1(–3). Involucres 3.5–5(–6) × 7–12 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3(–4) series, coarsely hirsuto-villous, sparsely to moderately minutely glandular. Ray florets (35–)45–100; corollas white, sometimes pink or bluish, 5–10 mm, laminae (0.8–1.1 mm wide) primarily reflexing, sometimes also weakly coiling at the tips. Disc corollas (2.5–)2.7–4.2 mm (throats indurate and inflated, densely puberulent). Cypselae 1.4–1.8 mm (oblong), 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer usually of narrow scales, sometimes 0 or of setae, inner of 12–20 bristles.
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