Herbs usually 8-25 cm tall, perennial. Rootstock ca. 8 mm in diam. Caudex woody, with dark brown or pale yellow scarious leaf sheath residues. Stems solitary or few, branched from base or from middle with curved-erect branches, stellate puberulent, basally leafy. Basal leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, 5-20 × 0.4-0.7[-2] cm, stellate puberulent, glabrescent, base attenuate, margin mostly undulate, apex acuminate. Stem leaves few, smaller than basal leaves but otherwise similar. Synflorescence laxly corymbiform, with usually 2-4 long-pedunculate capitula. Involucre cylindric, 1.5-2 × 0.5-0.8 cm at anthesis, to usually 2.5-3 × 1-1.3 cm in fruit. Phyllaries stellate puberulent, glabrescent; outermost phyllaries triangular-ovate, 3-8 × 4-5 mm. Florets yellow, ca. 1.5 × as long as involucre. Achene cylindric, 1-1.4 cm, with tuberculate ribs, glabrous. Pappus dirty white to straw-colored, usually 1.5-2 cm. Fl. and fr. May-Aug. 2n = 14.
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