Herbs, perennial, 12-30 cm tall; stems solitary or clustered, villous with long curved simple hairs especially in upper part and below capitula. Basal leaves: petiole ca. 2.4 cm; leaf blade oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 4-10 × 1.5-3 cm, 3-pinnatisect, both surfaces pale green, sparsely villous; primary lateral segments 7-12-paired; ultimate segments obliquely triangular, lanceolate, or linear. Stem leaves similar, usually 2-pinnatisect, sessile. Capitula solitary, terminal. Involucre coryliform, 10-25 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 4 rows, abaxially subglabrous, scarious margin broad, dark brown, outer phyllaries lanceolate, ca. 6 mm, middle and inner ones narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 7-9 mm, abaxially glabrous. Ray florets yellow; lamina narrowly elliptic, ca. 1 cm, apex 3-denticulate. Corona shorter than 0.1 mm. Fl. Jul.
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