Plants 12–50 cm. Stems 2–5, erect or ascending, red-tinged, glabrous or sparsely tomentose distally, eglandular. Leaves: basal petiolate, blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 70–210 × 10–35 mm, margins entire or undulate, ciliate; cauline sessile, linear-lanceolate, 30–80 × 2–10 mm, bases clasping; faces glabrous, eglandular. Heads usually 2–4 in racemiform arrays, sometimes borne singly. Peduncles 0–4 cm. Involucres hemispheric, 11–17 × 20–30 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, oblanceolate to oblong, 7–13 mm, unequal, bases chartaceous, margins entire, densely ciliate, apices green, acuminate, faces glabrous. Ray florets 18–45; corollas 10–20 mm. Disc florets 80–100; corollas 6.5–10 mm. Cypselae oblong-fusiform, 5–7 mm, 4-angled, faces striate, glabrous; pappi tawny, 6–9 mm. 2n = 12.
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