Shrubs to 4 m tall with gray, wooly stems. Leaves few, clustered primarily near the base of the plant, (12.5-) 20(-30) cm wide, (12-)38(-38) cm long, deeply parted, almost pinnately compound, the terminal segment cordate or sagittate, the remaining segments forming paired, ovate to lanceolate, dentate lobes along the petiole, above with wispy, scattered, long, white hairs, densely gray lanate beneath. Inflorescences paniculate, 140-450 mm tall; pedicles bracteate, lanate. Heads discoid, turbinate, 9-23 mm tall; involucral bracts in 7-8 series, lanceolate, acuminate, increasing in size inwards; receptacle flat, fimbrillate, florets 4-11 per head, the corolla red, zygomorphic, 5-parted with 1 tooth larger than the other 4, glabrous, 15-25 mm long. Achenes columnar, truncate, ca. 6 mm long, with 4-5 narrow ribs covered with long, ascending and short, yellow trichomes; pappus of numerous, yellow, setose bristles to 17 mm in length.
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