Perennials (sometimes flowering first year; ± taprooted). Proximal leaves mostly alternate; blades linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, pinnately lobed (usually beginning in proximal part of leaf, lobes 5–7), ultimate margins entire or laciniately toothed (teeth 1–5), serrate, or entire, revolute, abaxial faces woolly, adaxial less so or glabrate. Heads 2–6 per array or borne singly. Peduncles mostly 10–30 cm. Involucres 10–15 mm diam. Ray florets usually 10–13(–15), rarely 0; laminae 10–20 mm. Cypselae (2.4–)2.5–3.5(–4) mm; pappi (0.5–)0.8–1.2(–2) mm. 2n = 16, 32, 48, 64.
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