Plants 10–60 cm. Stems 1–4, erect or ascending, reddish, sometimes sparsely leafy, sparsely to densely villous, tomentose, or woolly, usually stipitate-glandular distally. Leaves: basal petiolate, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 40–200 × 8–45 mm, margins usually coarsely, sharply serrate, sometimes entire, frequently stipitate-glandular, sometimes ciliate, apices acute, faces villous to tomentose, sometimes stipitate-glandular; cauline petiolate, lanceolate, 15–75 × 3–20 mm, becoming sessile and reduced distally, bases clasping. Heads usually 3–7 in loose, racemiform arrays, rarely borne singly (short-or long-pedunculate). Involucres hemispheric to campanulate, 7–12 × 8–20 mm. Peduncles 1–4 cm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, loose or appressed, green throughout or only distally (bases chartaceous), linear-lanceolate, unequal to subequal, apices acute, faces villous to tomentose, sometimes stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 10–34; corollas 6–15 mm. Disc florets 30–60; corollas 5–7 mm. Cypselae subcylindric, 3–4.5 mm, 3–4-angled, faces striate, sericeous-strigose; pappi whitish to tawny, 5–7 mm.
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