Herbs to 1.2 m tall, perennial. Rootstock cylindric to obconic, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Caudex with brown scarious leaf sheath residues. Stem usually solitary, erect, branched apically, floccosely arachnoid hairy especially apically, glabrescent, leafy. Basal leaves rosulate, usually early deciduous, linear to linear-elliptic, to 40 × 0.3-2 cm, glabrous, margin entire, apex acuminate. Stem leaves similar to basal leaves but shorter. Synflorescence sparsely and usually laxly corymbiform, with usually 2-7 capitula. Involucre cylindric, 2-2.5 × 0.5-0.7 cm at anthesis, 3.5-4.2 × 0.8-1.3 in fruit. Phyllaries abaxially glabrous or thinly arachnoid hairy, glabrescent; outermost phyllaries triangular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 × 2-4 mm. Florets yellow, ca. 1.5 × as long as involucre. Achene pale brown, cylindric and from middle third distinctly tapering toward apex, usually 1.7-2.3 cm, with smooth ribs, glabrous. Pappus straw-colored, usually 2.2-2.8 cm, bristles basally connate and caducous as an entity. Fl. and fr. May-Sep. 2n = 14.
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A herb. It grows 1.2 m tall. It keeps growing from year to year. The rootstock is 1.5 cm across. There is a single stem. The leaves at the base are in a ring. They are narrow and 40 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. The leaves on the stem are shorter.
Open ground in grass and steppe. Mountain valleys, forests, forest margins, scrub, feral fields, fields at elevations of 200-2500 metres in N. China.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in mountain valleys and the edges of forests between 200-2,500 m above sea level in northern China. In Sichuan.
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