Perennials, 10–30+ cm; rhizomatous (rhizomes branched, suberect, stout). Stems 1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), densely lanate or canescent. Basal leaves (and proximal cauline) petiolate; blades ovate or elliptic to lanceolate, 25–50+ × 10–30 mm, bases tapering, margins entire or irregularly undulate to weakly dentate (abaxial faces persistently lanate, adaxial lanate to subglabrescent). Cauline leaves gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile, then weakly clasping; elliptic to lanceolate, entire or weakly dentate). Heads 8–15+ in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles bracteate, usually densely lanate to floccose-tomentose (sometimes subglabrescent). Calyculi inconspicuous (bractlets tomentose). Phyllaries 13 or 21, green, 5–8+ mm, densely tomentose. Ray florets 8–10 (or 13); corolla laminae 8–10+ mm. Disc florets 35–50+; corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm. Cypselae 2.5–3.5+ mm, glabrous; pappi 4.5–7 mm. 2n = 46, 92.
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