Perennials (sometimes flowering first year) 10–60+ cm (sometimes rhizomatous). Leaves cauline; petiolar bases 0–3+ cm; blades narrowly elliptic, linear, obovate, or spatulate, 15–60 × 3–12(–22) mm, (bases of distal often clasping) margins remotely toothed or entire, faces usually closely scabrellous (hairs sometimes crisped). Peduncles 1–10(–20) cm. Phyllaries 15–26, lance-ovate to lanceolate, 6–14+ mm, scabrellous. Receptacular setae 0 or 0.1–0.5+ mm. Ray florets usually 6–12(–15), sometimes 0; corollas pinkish to purple or yellow to cream or white, 13–25 mm. Disc florets 20–60(–100+); corollas yellow or purple to purple-brown or bicolored, tubes 0.5–1 mm, throats stoutly cylindric to campanulate or urceolate, 3.5–5 mm, lobes attenuate-terete, 1.5–3 mm, jointed hairs to 0.3 mm. Cypselae 1.5–2 mm, hairs 1 mm, inserted at bases and on angles and faces; pappi of 8–10 lanceolate, aristate scales 5–7 mm (scarious bases 2–3.5 × 0.6–1 mm). 2n = 34, 68.
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