Stem erect, 50-100 cm tall, to 1 cm in diam. at base, distally and branches of synflorescence white arachnoid-puberulent or glabrous. Basal leaves petiolate; petiole grayish green, with purple spots, 20-100 cm, stout, unwinged, base sheathed; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially green, reniform, ca. 40 cm in diam., abaxially initially white puberulent, glabrescent, adaxially glabrous or shortly pilose, veins palmate, palmatisect; lobes 3-5, palmatilobed; segments pinnate, margin dentate, or rarely entire. Middle and distal stem leaves smaller, shortly petiolate, sheath amplexicaul. Distalmost stem leaves without sheaths, palmatipartite. Capitula 2-8, in corymb; supplementary and leaflike bracts usually absent; peduncles to 20 cm, white floccose-puberulent. Involucre hemispheric, broader than long, 1-2.5 × 1.5-2.4 cm, outside white puberulent; phyllaries 9-12, closely imbricate, broadly oblong, to 8 mm wide, apex triangular, mucronate; inner phyllaries 2-carinate on convex outside and margin broadly membranous. Ray florets yellow; lamina oblong, 4-6.5 × ca. 1 cm; tube 7-12 mm. Tubular florets numerous, ca. 2 cm; tube ca. 1 cm. Achenes cylindric, 7-16 mm, ribbed. Pappus reddish brown, as long as tube of tubular corolla. Fl. and fr. Apr-Sep. 2n = 60.
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A herb. It grows 50-100 cm tall. The stem is 1 cm across at the base. It has white hairs. The leaves have leaf stalks with purple spots. They are 20-100 cm long. The leaves are pale green underneath. The leaves are kidney shaped and 40 cm across. They have lobes and teeth along the edge. The flowers are yellow. The seeds are 7-16 mm long and ribbed.
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