Herbs, perennial, rosulate and acaulescent or exceptionally caulescent with a thick hollow densely leafy stem to 20 cm tall. Taproot slender. Leaves glabrous; petiole to 1 cm, broadly winged; leaf blade obovate, elliptic, or ovate, 3-8 × 0.5-2.2 cm, base cuneate, margin coarsely dentate, apex rounded to obtuse. Leaves immediately below synflorescence somewhat smaller. Synflorescence flat conical, 5-6 cm in diam., with numerous capitula. Capitula with 3 florets. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 10-13 × ca. 3 mm. Phyllaries 3(or 4), lanceolate, abaxially glabrous, apex obtuse to rounded. Florets pale rose. Achene not seen when mature, brown, obconical, compressed, apex truncate. Pappus 8-9 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug.
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