Plants 5–35 cm. Stems (peduncles) often with 1–2, leafy bracts near bases. Leaves: blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 4–20 cm, margins plane, entire, sometimes ciliolate, (apices acute) faces glabrous. Involucres 12–22 mm. Phyllaries 15–50, minutely purple-dotted except on membranous margins, sometimes purple-lined on midribs, broadly lanceolate to ovate, apices acute to acuminate, faces usually glabrous. Florets 13–100; ligules 10–25 mm. Cypselae brown, 6–10 mm, tapered distally, not beaked; pappi of 10–25, narrow, smooth to barbellulate, aristate scales 8–13 mm.
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