Herbs to 14 cm tall, perennial, rosulate. Rootstock obconic, ca. 3 cm in diam. Caudex densely covered with brown fibrous and lacerate leaf sheath residues. Stems few, unbranched, conspicuously floccose or lanate when young, soon glabrescent. Rosette leaves linear, 8-10 × 0.3-0.4 cm, adaxially densely lanate when young, glabrescent, base attenuate, margin flat and basally lanate, apex acute to long acuminate. Stem leaves 1-3, scalelike, subulate-triangular, margin and adaxially lanate. Capitulum solitary. Involucre campanulate, to 2 × 1.8 cm in fruit. Phyllaries abaxially white puberulent and tinged with purple, apex obtuse to acute; outermost phyllaries triangular to ovate-triangular, largest ca. 7 × 3 mm. Achene dirty yellow, cylindric, 7-8 mm, with smooth ribs, sparsely to densely villous. Pappus dirty yellow, 1-1.5 cm. Fl. and fr. Apr-May.
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