Herbs to 15 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, erect, simple. Leaves petiolate; petiole 2.5-5 cm; leaf blade narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic, 6-9 × 1-1.5 cm, abaxially grayish white, gland-dotted, and tomentose, adaxially green, gland-dotted, and scabrid with short articulate hairs, base attenuate, margin subentire and repand to sinuate-dentate, apex acute and mucronate. Uppermost stem leaves narrowly elliptic to linear, 3.5-6 × 0.2-0.8 cm. Capitulum solitary, terminal on stem. Involucre campanulate, 1.5-2 cm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, narrowly triangular-linear, sparsely villous, apex acuminate. Corolla purple, 1.4-1.5 cm, tube 9-10 mm, limb ca. 5 mm, lobes ca. 3 mm. Achene brown, cylindric, ca. 3 mm, glabrous. Pappus pale yellow; outer bristles scabrid to barbellate, 1-3 mm; inner bristles 1.1-1.2 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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