Plants 5–18(–30) cm. Stems 1–7, procumbent to decumbent or ascending, red tinged, scapiform, glabrous or sparsely tomentose. Leaves: basal petiolate, blades lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–100 × 2–18 mm (leathery), margins usually coarsely dentate to laciniate, rarely entire, ciliate; cauline sessile, blades linear-lanceolate (bractlike), 10–20 × 1–2 mm; faces glabrous, eglandular. Heads usually borne singly, terminal, rarely 1–2 smaller proximally. Peduncles 2–3 cm. Involucres hemispheric, 7–13 × 13–20 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, green, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, 4–10 mm, unequal, margins white to purplish, entire, ciliate, apices green, broad, acute, faces glabrous. Ray florets 11–40; corollas 7–16 mm. Disc florets 45–90; corollas 5–7 mm. Cypselae fusiform, slightly flattened, 5–7 mm, 3-angled, faces striate, glabrous; pappi tawny, 5–7.5 mm. 2n = 12.
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