Perennials, 10–50+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices weak to stout, horizontal to suberect). Stems 1 or 2–5, clustered, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely floccose-tomentose proximally and in leaf axils. Basal leaves (and proximal cauline, relatively thick and turgid) petiolate; blades spatulate to oblanceolate, or ovate to orbiculate, 20–40+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to abruptly contracted or subcordate, margins entire, crenate, dentate, or weakly lobulate (faces usually glabrous, sometimes hairy). Cauline leaves gradually to abruptly reduced (± petiolate or sessile; entire or subentire). Heads 2–20+ in loose, corymbiform or subumbelliform arrays. Peduncles bracteate, glabrous or sparsely tomentose. Calyculi conspicuous. Phyllaries (8–)13 or 21, green (tips sometimes cyanic), 4–7+ mm, glabrous. Ray florets 8 or 13; corolla laminae 5–10 mm. Disc florets 35–60+; corolla tubes 2–4 mm, limbs 2.5–4 mm. Cypselae 1–2.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 3–6 mm. 2n = 46, 92.
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