Herbs 15-30 cm tall, perennial, with a taproot ?and shoot-bearing lateral roots, strongly hirsute of pale partly glandular hairs. Stem solitary, erect, leafy. Lower and middle stem leaves oblanceolate to obovoid in outline, ca. 12 × 5 cm, lyrately pinnatisect, basally abruptly contracted into a ± winged petiole-like portion, base semiamplexicaul to weakly clasping, margin densely and sharply sinuate-dentate and denticulate; lateral lobes 1 or 2 pairs, triangular to rhombic, apex acute to obtuse; terminal lobe broadly ovate to broadly triangular, very much larger than lateral lobes, base cordate, apex acute. Upper stem leaves ovate to lanceolate, smaller, ± without petiole-like basal portion, otherwise similar to middle stem leaves. Synflorescence narrowly paniculiform, leafy, with few to some capitula. Capitula nodding, with ca. 8 florets; peduncle less than 1 cm. Involucre cylindric, 1.5-1.8 cm. Phyllaries abaxially hirsute as remainder of plant; outer phyllaries few, ± inconspicuous; inner phyllaries 5. Florets yellowish. Achene brown, narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm, subcompressed, apex attenuate into a short stout beak. Pappus single, yellowish, ca. 7 mm, caducous. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.
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