Perennial herb, stock woody, flowering stem usually solitary, simple, up to ±600 mm tall, leafy below, pedunculoid upwards, thinly woolly. Radical leaves up to 350 x 40 mm, about half the length petiolar, blade elliptic to ovate, abruptly or gradually narrowed to the slender petiole, apex acute, margins often undulate, upper surface scabridulous, lower white-felted, 3-, rarely 5-nerved, tertiary nerves not or faintly visible; cauline leaves similar to radical, but soon sessile and cordate-clasping, passing into distant acuminate bracts. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±6-7 mm long and as broad, many in a compact, flat-topped corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, graded, closely imbricate, woolly at the base, tips ovate, subobtuse, more or less opaque, outer purplish or reddish, inner tipped white or creamy, equalling the flowers, scarcely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils at least equalling the ovaries. Flowers 18-29. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles scabrid, bases lightly fused, also cohering by patent cilia.
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Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Radical leaves up to 350 x 40 mm, elliptic to ovate, petiolate, margins often undulate, upper surface scabridulous, lower white-felted; cauline leaves similar but soon sessile. Heads campanulate, many in compact, flat-topped corymbose panicle. Flowers white or pink; outer involucral bracts purplish or reddish, inner tipped white or creamy.
Subshrub with erect, peduncle-like stem to 60 cm from a woody rootstock, woolly above. Leaves mostly radical, ovate-petiolate, glabrescent above, felted beneath, 3(-5)-veined from base. Flower heads discoid, many in a compact corymb, campanulate, white and pink or red, ± 7 x 7 mm, florets 20-30, ovary glabrous.
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