Perennials, 30–60 cm (rhizomes branched). Stems ascending to erect, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular. Leaves: mid and distal blades lanceolate to lance-ovate, 3–6 cm × 5–15 mm, ± glabrous. Heads 3–8 in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles glabrous or sparsely glandular. Involucres campanulate, 8–9 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series (sometimes reddish apically), lanceolate to narrowly ovate (unequal), apices acute, abaxial glabrous or sparsely glandular. Rays 0 or 1–2(–4), violet-purple. Cypselae appressed-pilose; pappus bristles in 2 series, ± smooth.
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