Plants 40–120 cm. Cauline leaves: largest at mid stems; blades usually 3-nerved, usually lanceolate to elliptic, rarely ovate, 12–25 cm, faces puberulent, hirsute, or scabrous. Heads usually borne singly, sometimes 2–3+, erect. Involucres turbinate to hemispheric or broader, 15–30 mm diam. Phyllaries lanceolate to lance-linear (subequal or outer larger, margins sometimes ciliate, faces ± cinereous-pubescent to sparsely puberulent). Paleae chartaceous, relatively firm. Ray florets 11–13(–21); laminae 15–30(–45) mm. Disc corollas yellow. Cypselae strongly compressed, narrowly obovate (margins ciliate, faces strigose); pappi of 2 ± subulate scales plus 2–4 shorter scales. 2n = 30.
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