Herbs to 30 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, erect, simple, densely yellowish white villous, covered at base with brown residue of petioles. Lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole 3-6 cm; leaf blade oblong, broadly linear, or narrowly elliptic, 15-18 × 1-1.2 cm, sparsely yellowish white villous, base attenuate, margin sinuate and sparsely denticulate, apex obtuse. Middle stem leaves sessile, narrowly ovate-elliptic, to 11 × 0.5 cm, margin entire. Upper stem leaves sessile, narrowly ovate-elliptic to linear, 1.3-6 × ca. 0.2 cm, base amplexicaul, apex acuminate. Capitulum solitary, terminal on stem. Involucre hemispheric, ca. 1.3 cm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 rows, purplish red, densely yellowish white villous, apex acuminate; outer phyllaries narrowly oblong-elliptic, ca. 14 × 4 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, ca. 1.7 × 0.3 cm; inner phyllaries narrowly triangular-linear, ca. 18 × 1-2 mm. Corolla purplish red, ca. 1.7 cm, tube ca. 1 cm, limb ca. 7 mm. Achene pale brown, oblong, ca. 3.5 mm. Pappus pale brown; outer bristles ca. 3 mm; inner bristles ca. 1 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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