Herbs, perennial, 20-100 cm tall, densely shortly papilliform hairy, glabrate in lower part; rhizome long, slender, or thick. Stems solitary or several, erect or ascending, purplish at base, branched upward, branches slender, ascending, sometimes sparsely sessile glandular. Leaves dense, lower often withered at anthesis, mid sessile, blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear, (3-)4-5.5(-7) × 0.1-1.4 cm, both surfaces or only adaxially gland-dotted, 1-or 3-veined, base attenuate, margin scabrous, apex acuminate to long acuminate; upper blade linear-lanceolate to linear, ± reduced upward, 3-veined (lateral 2 sometimes faint), sometimes 1-veined. Capitula numerous, in dense to lax corymbiform synflorescences, rarely solitary, (3-)10-15 × (5-)15-25 mm; peduncles slender; bracts 1 or 2, linear, densely papillose. Involucre broadly campanulate or broadly obconic to subhemispheric, 3-6 × 5-10 mm; phyllaries 3-or 4-seriate, yellow-green, imbricate, abaxially papillose to glabrate or glabrous, membranous, margin fimbriate, villous-ciliate, back sometimes rounded, outer short, green area wide, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-veined, margin leafy textured, apex acute, innermost larger, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, usually 3-veined, margin scarious, apex rounded to obtuse or sometimes acute, sometimes pinkish tinged. Ray florets 10-20, pinkish or pale violet, tube ca. 2 mm, lamina 10-16 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous; disk florets 20-40(-80), pale yellow, sometimes becoming purplish tinged, 6-8 mm, limb funnelform, lobes lanceolate. Achenes lanceolate or oblong, 2-4 mm, ± densely strigose. Pappus whitish or dirty white to yellowish, 5-8 mm. Fl. Jul-Sep.
Home