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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 600 mm high, several from crown, mostly simple, decumbent then erect, softly glandular-pilose, sparsely to closely leafy. Leaves mostly basal with blade oblong to spathulate, up to 150 x 30 mm, narrowed to base but scarcely petioled, apex subacute to obtuse, margins entire, repand or shallowly toothed; shortly glandular-pubescent, sometimes lightly cobwebbed below at first; stem leaves smaller, base subauricled, clasping, passing into bracts. Heads radiate, 12-15 x 15-20 mm, few to many racemosely arranged, inflorescence branches glandular-hairy. Involucral bracts 16-20, (10-)12(-15) mm long, ± villous to pilose with long gland-tipped hairs; calyculus bracts ± 3-5, short. Flowers: ray florets 12 or 13(-18); ray and disc florets deep pink to purple; Sep.-Nov., Apr. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) with long, white hairs.
Perennial herb, rootstock stout, woody. Stems several, decumbent, then erect, up to 0.5 m high, glandular-pilose, sparsely to closely leafy. Leaves mostly radical, rosetted, oblong to spathulate, up to 150 x 30 mm, base broad, flat, ± petiolate, margins entire to denticulate, shortly glandular-pubescent; cauline leaves smaller, base clasping. Inflorescence racemose. Capitula few-many, disc and rays (12-18) deep pink to purple; involucral bracts 16-20, 10-15 mm long, villous to pilose with long, jointed, gland-tipped hairs (also on inflorescence branches); calyculus bracts few, short; disc and rays (12-18) deep pink to purple. Flowering time mainly Sept.-Dec. Cypselae cylindrical, ± ribbed, shortly hairy, 3 mm long.
Decumbent then erect perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves shortly glandular-pubescent, sometimes lightly cobwebbed below at first; radical leaves narrowed to base but scarcely petioled, margins entire, Repand or shallowly toothed. Heads radiate, rays 12 or 13(-18); involucral bracts 16-20, (10-)12(-15) mm long. Achenes with long white hairs. Flowers deep pink to purple; September to November and in April.
