Perennials or subshrubs, 15–45 cm (in rock crevices); glandular-pubescent. Leaves: petioles 8–23 mm; blades ovate, subcordate, or subdeltate, 6–20 × 5–25 mm, margins irregularly lobed, laciniate, serrate-dentate, or shallowly 3-lobed. Heads borne singly or (2–3) in corymbiform arrays, 8–11 × 4–8 mm. Peduncles 10–25 mm. Involucres campanulate. Phyllaries 14–24, linear to linear-lanceolate, (5–)6–10 × 0.5–1 mm, apices long-attenuate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 20–60; corollas yellow, often pink or purple tinged, tubes 1–1.7 mm, throats tubular, 2.1–3.2 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm. Cypselae oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, (1–)2–3.2 mm, margins prominently calloused, densely ciliate; pappi of 1(–2) antrorsely barbellate bristles 3.5–6 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales. 2n = 34.
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