Perennial herb, roots fusiform, tuberous, rootstock stout, woody, crown brown silky-woolly, flowering stem terminal, simple, up to 450 mm tall, often leafy at the base only, more rarely distantly leafy upwards, woolly-felted. Leaves often only 3 or 4, spreading or ascending, up to 150(-230) x 40(-60) mm, elliptic, ovate or subrotund, narrowed to a broad clasping base, stem leaves, if present, cordate-clasping, shortly decurrent, apex obtuse or subacute, upper surface harshly pubescent with long coarse multicellular hairs, lower white-felted, strongly 5-9 nerved, reticulate. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±5 x 5 mm, many in compact corymbose clusters in a rounded or flat-topped cyme. Involucral bracts in ±3 series, imbricate, subequal, about equalling the flowers, base woolly, tips more or less obtuse, crisped, pellucid, pale brown, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils longer than ovaries. Flowers 23-58, bright yellow. Achenes ±1 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases lightly cohering by patent cilia, lightly fused as well.
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Perennial herb, up to 450 mm tall. Leaves radical, 150(-230) x 40(-60) mm, elliptic, ovate or subrotound, upper surface harshly pubescent with long coarse multicellular hairs, lower white-felted. Heads campanulate, many in compact corymbose clusters in rounded or flat-topped cyme. Flowers bright yellow; involucral bracts pale brown.
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