Herbs 25-75 cm tall, perennial, with a taproot. Caudex woody, sometimes branched, with sparse leaf sheath residues. Stems solitary or few, erect, sparsely branched apically, glabrous or weakly floccose with branched hairs, leafy. Basal leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, usually 5-20 × 0.4-0.8 cm, margin flat, apex acuminate. Stem leaves similar to basal leaves but smaller. Synflorescence very loosely corymbiform, with few capitula. Involucre cylindric, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 cm at anthesis, to 3-3.5 cm in fruit. Phyllaries arachnoid branched hairy. Florets dark orange. Achene cylindric, ca. 1.5 cm, with smooth ribs, glabrous. Pappus dirty white, ca. 2 cm.
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