Perennials, 30–70 cm. Stems (from short, stout rhizomes) single, branched distally, puber-ulent. Leaves usually opposite (distal sometimes alternate); sessile; blades pinnately nerved, elliptic to ovate, 20–80 × 10–30 mm, bases cuneate, margins serrate to crenate-serrate, apices rounded to acute, faces sparsely villous (abaxial), glabrate (adaxial), little, if at all, gland-dotted. Heads in corymbiform arrays. Phyllaries 9–15 in 2–4 series, linear, 4–10 × 0.6–1 mm, apices (white) acuminate to attenuate, strongly mucronate, abaxial faces glabrous, not gland-dotted. Florets (4–)5; corollas 3–3.5 mm. Cypselae 2.5–3 mm; pappi of 40–50 bristles 3.5–4 mm. 2n = 20.
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