Herbs 50-70 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, erect, simple or apically branched, glabrous. Basal leaves withered at anthesis. Lower and middle stem leaves petiolate; petiole 7-17 cm; leaf blade ovate-cordate, 9-15 × 7-9 cm, abaxially pale green and pilose on veins, adaxially green and sparsely strigose but glabrescent, base cordate to hastate, margin dentate, apex acuminate. Upper stem leaves sessile or subsessile; leaf blade ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, gradually smaller upward on stem, base rounded to cuneate, margin denticulate or entire, apex acuminate. Capitula 5-14, in a dense corymbiform synflorescence, pedunculate. Involucre cylindric, ca. 5 mm in diam. Phyllaries in ca. 4 rows, straw-colored but purple apically, rigid, leathery, sparsely arachnoid, apex acute to rounded and mucronate; outer phyllaries broadly ovate, 2-3 × 2-3 mm; middle and inner phyllaries elliptic, ca. 5 × 3 mm. Corolla purple, ca. 8 mm, tube ca. 4 mm, limb ca. 4 mm. Achene cylindric, ca. 3 mm. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles 1-2 mm, scabrid; inner bristles 6-7 mm. Fl. Jul.
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