Perennials, 2–8 cm; taprooted, caudices branched, retaining old leaf bases. Stems erect (greenish proximally, essentially scapiform), strigose, eglandular. Leaves mostly basal (persistent); blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 10–50 × (1–)2–5(–7) mm, sometimes continuing on proximal 1 / 2 of stems, margins entire, faces usually sparsely to densely strigose, abaxial sometimes glabrous or glabrate, eglandular. Heads 1. Involucres 5–7 × 6–12(–15) mm. Phyllaries in 2–3(–4) series, densely hispiduloso-hirsute, eglandular. Ray florets 14–30; corollas white to pink or purplish, 4–8 mm, laminae coiling and reflexing. Disc corollas 3.5–5 mm. Cypselae 2.3–3 mm, 2-nerved, faces and margins moderately strigose to strigoso-sericeous, margins densely ciliate; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 18–35 bristles.
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