Plants 7–40 cm. Stems 1–7, curved-ascending to decumbent, red-tinged, sparsely leafy to almost naked, glabrate to lanate or tomentulose, eglandular. Leaves: basal petiolate, blades linear to oblanceolate or elliptic, 40–150 × 3–20 mm, margins usually sharply dentate to laciniate, rarely entire; cauline sessile, few, blades lanceolate, 20–50 × 2–6 mm, bases cordate, clasping; faces glabrous, sparsely to densely shaggy-tomentose or lanate, eglandular. Heads usually borne singly, sometimes 2–4 in racemiform arrays. Peduncles 2–12 cm. Involucres hemispheric, 6–13 × 10–20 mm. Phyllaries in 2 series, appresssed or loose, linear-lanceolate, 6–11 mm, subequal or unequal (sometimes outer ± shorter and green throughout), margins ciliate, faces usually villous to lanate, rarely glabrous. Ray florets 18–50; corollas 7–11 mm. Disc florets 35–60; corollas 5–8 mm. Cypselae subcylindric, 2–4 mm, obscurely nerved and angled, faces sericeous; pappi tawny, 5–7 mm.
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