Perennials, 40–60 cm; fibrous-rooted, sometimes rhizomatous. Stems puberulent to sparsely villous and stipitate-to sessile-glandular (sometimes viscid). Leaves sessile; blades ovate to ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 2–7 × 0.5–3 cm (bases cuneate to truncate or subcordate, clasping to subclasping), margins shallowly apiculate-toothed, faces puberulent to sparsely villous and stipitate-to sessile-glandular (sometimes viscid). Heads in corymbiform arrays. Involucres campanulate to turbinate-campanulate or turbinate, 4–6 × 5–9 mm (bases obtuse to barely acute). Phyllaries rose-pink to purplish, moderately appressed-villous to puberulous or arachnose, usually viscid-hairy as well (outer phyllaries ovate-acuminate to ovate-lanceolate, lengths 0.5–1 times inner). Corollas rose-pink to purplish. Pappi persistent, bristles distinct. 2n = 20.
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