Perennial herb with fleshy horizontal rhizome and erect fleshy flowering stem 10–60 cm high, sometimes distally purplish-brown-tinged.. Leaves succulent, sessile, oblanceolate, obovate or elliptic in outline, 4–13 cm long, 0.7–4 cm wide, margins entire or usually pinnately dentate or laciniate, glabrous, sometimes white-veined, often mottled or blotched with dull purple or red.. Capitula discoid, 1(–3), terminal, nodding in bud; involucre cylindrical, 14–20 mm long, 13–18 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus absent or obscure; phyllaries usually 8, rarely 5, 14–20 mm long.. Ray florets absent; disc florets bright orange to rich red, corolla 14–20.5 mm long, tube glabrous, expanded in upper two-thirds, lobes 2–2.5 mm long.. Achenes 4.5–7 mm long, ribbed, glabrous; pappus in flower and fruit 12–19 mm long.
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