Herbs, perennial, rosulate. Taproot ramose or not ramose. Rosette shoot with conspicuous subterranean portion with cataphylls. Cataphylls below leaf rosette numerous, ovate, long ovate, or narrowly lanceolate, 7-15 × 3-5 mm, apex acute. Above-ground leaves in a dense to loose rosette, with ± winged petiole-like 1.5-6 cm base; bladelike portion spatulate, broadly elliptic, or obovate, 2-3.5 × 0.4-1 cm, white villous or glabrous, base cuneate, margin entire or weakly dentate. Synflorescence flat to ± hemispheric, 3-5 cm in diam., with numerous closely crowded capitula. Capitula with 4 or 5 florets; peduncle 2-15 mm. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 10-15 × 2-3 mm. Outer phyllaries linear, shorter or longer than inner ones, ca. 1 mm wide, pilose; inner phyllaries 4 or 5, pilose or rarely glabrous, apex obtuse, acute, or rounded. Florets yellow or rarely white. Anther tube yellowish, reddish, or blackish. Style yellowish, greenish, or blackish. Achene brown, narrowly obconical, 5-8 mm, subequally ribbed and between main ribs usually with 3 or 4 secondary ribs, apex ± truncate. Pappus whitish or straw-colored and grayish apically, 7-11 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Sep. 2n = 16*, 32*.
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