Herbs 5-45 cm tall, perennial, rosulate. Rootstock dark brown. Caudex woody, densely covered with brown fibrous and lacerate leaf sheath residues. Stems solitary or few, erect, unbranched, glabrous. Rosette leaves narrowly linear, linear-lanceolate, linear-elliptic, or narrowly elliptic, usually 3-35 × 0.2-2.5 cm, glabrous or occasionally base and sheath marginally arachnoid hairy, base long attenuate, margin flat, apex acute to acuminate. Stem leaves 2 to several, scalelike, lanceolate to subulate-lanceolate, base semiamplexicaul. Capitulum solitary. Involucre cylindric, usually 2.1-2.8 × 0.6-1.2 cm at anthesis, to 3.3 × 1.5 cm in fruit. Phyllaries abaxially glabrous or occasionally inner ones apically arachnoid hairy at margin, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded; outermost phyllaries triangular to triangular-ovate. Florets yellow, usually to 1.5-1.7 × as long as involucre. Achene whitish to pale brown, cylindric, 1.2-1.5 cm, with smooth or sometimes tuberculate ribs, glabrous. Pappus dirty white, usually 1.5-1.7 cm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jul. 2n = 14*.
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A herb. It grows 5-15 cm tall. It keeps growing from year to year. It has leaves in a ring at the base. The top of the rootstock is woody. It is covered leafy fibrous leaf sheaths. There is usually one stem. The leaves at the base are narrow and 3-35 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. There can be a few small leaves on the stem.
Dry places, C. France to Czechoslovakia, south to S. Italy and Bulgaria. Slopes, floodplains, grassy beaches at elevations of 400-2000 metres in N. China.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows on flood plains, grassy river banks and lake shores between 400-2,000 m above sea level in north China.
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