Perennials, 40–160 cm (with caudices; herbage glabrous, ± glaucous). Stems erect, glabrous. Leaves: mid and distal blades linear to narrowly lance-elliptic, 4–10 cm × 4–16 mm. Heads 5–20(–60) in racemiform to paniculiform arrays. Peduncles glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular. Involucres turbinate to campanulate, 7–9 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series (reddish distally), linear to lanceolate or lance-ovate (unequal), apices acuminate, abaxial faces sparsely stipitate-glandular. Rays commonly 8 or 13, purple. Cypselae obconic, flattened, strigose; pappus bristles in 2 series, smooth or ± barbellate.
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