Herbs 20-90 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, 5-7 mm in diam., erect, apically branched, winged, densely leafy. Lower and middle stem leaves shortly petiolate or sessile; leaf blade narrowly ovate-elliptic, 6-10 × 1-2 cm, abaxially grayish white or grayish green and arachnoid, adaxially green and glabrous or with short glandular hairs, base decurrent, margin entire, crenate, or apically denticulate, apex acute to acuminate. Upper stem leaves linear, 1-5 × 0.1-0.3 cm, margin entire. Capitula numerous, clustered at end of branches, in a corymbiform synflorescence, shortly pedunculate. Involucre narrowly obovoid, 5-8 mm in diam. Phyllaries in ca. 5 rows, narrowly ovate-elliptic to linear, arachnoid, apex acute; outer phyllaries ovate-elliptic, 5-6 × 2-2.5 mm, apical part herbaceous and reflexed, apex acuminate to caudate; middle and inner phyllaries 7-11 × 1-2 mm, apically and near margin purplish red, scarious, apex acute and erect. Receptacle bristles 4-7 mm. Corolla purplish red, ca. 9 mm. Achene glabrous. Pappus pale brown; outer bristles scabrid; inner bristles ca. 8 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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