Herbs 0.6-1.4 m tall, perennial. Rhizome stout. Stems solitary or few, (2-)5-8 mm in diam., erect, apically much branched, apically flexuous. Basal leaves withered at flowering time. Lower and middle stem leaves petiolate; petiole 1.5-5 cm; leaf blade narrowly ovate to oblong, 8-19 × 2-6.5 cm, both surfaces green, abaxially with a few isolated articulate hairs, adaxially glabrous, base cordate to rounded, margin denticulate and sparsely ciliate, apex acuminate to caudate. Upper stem leaves gradually smaller upward on stem; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, base cuneate to rounded. Capitula numerous, in a diffuse corymbiform-paniculiform synflorescence, pedunculate. Involucre campanulate, 6-8(-13) mm in diam. Phyllaries in 4-6 rows, straw-colored, sometimes apically tinged purple, glabrous or apically bearded, apex obtuse to subacute; outer phyllaries ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-2 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate, 3-10 × 1.5-2 mm; inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic to linear, 10-14 × 1-1.5 mm. Receptacle bristles brownish, subulate, 4-8 mm. Corolla purple, 1-1.3 cm, tube 4.5-7 mm, limb 5-6.5 mm, lobes 3-3.5 mm. Achene blackish brown, cylindric, 3-5 mm, smooth, glabrous. Pappus pale brown; outer bristles 2-4 mm; inner bristles (0.8-)1-1.1 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct.
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A herb. It grows 0.6-1.4 m tall. It keeps growing from year to year. It has stout rhizomes. The stems branch towards the top. The lower leaves have leaf stalks. The leaves are oval and 8-19 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. The base is heart shaped or rounded. The leaves get smaller up the stem.
A temperate plant. It grows in mountain meadows and on the edges of forests between 1,400-3,700 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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