Tufted, us. softly pilose herb up to 4 dm. tall. Stock stout, clad in old lf-sheaths; roots ∞, thick. Lvs all radical, on stout petioles up to 15 cm. long, with broad, pilose sheaths. Lamina (2.5)-4-10 cm. diam., densely to rather sparsely hairy to glabrate, reniform to suborbicular, or ovate, cordate to truncate at base, coriac. to submembr., margins coarsely crenate, sts crenately lobulate. Scapes 2-8-fld, up to 8cm. tall; lowest bract often lf-like, up to 5 × 3 cm., deeply lobed to entire; upper bract up to 3 cm. long, lanceolate to oblong, entire or with 1-2 teeth. Fls 1-3 cm. diam.; sepals 5, linear-oblong, ± 5 mm. long, glab. to pilose; petals 5-10, ± 1cm. long, narrow-obovate to obcordate; nectary gland 1, basal. Fruiting heads globose, up to 1·5 cm. diam.; achenes hairy to nearly glab., turgid, keeled, ± 2 mm. long; style c. 2-(3) mm. long, straight or slightly hooked, expanded to base, or with 3 narrow wings.
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