Plants 20–90 cm. Leaves mostly basal; basal petiolate (distal sessile, reduced); blades 3-nerved, ± elliptic, broadly oblanceolate, or spatulate, 12–25 cm × 14–19 mm. Heads 1–2, 26–45 mm diam. Peduncles 10–20 cm. Phyllaries 8–11 × 2–4 mm, apices acute. Paleae ± linear, apices acute. Corollas pink, lobes 3–7 × 0.5–0.8 mm. Pappi: scale margins serrulate. 2n = 18.