Herbs, perennial; stems 25-50 cm tall, erect, solitary, unbranched or few branched from base, subglabrous. Basal leaves: petiole 2-10 cm; leaf blade ovate or narrowly elliptic, 4-8 × 2.5-4 cm, 2-pinnatisect, both surfaces sparsely pubescent or glabrous; primary lateral segments 5-paired; ultimate segments triangular, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic. Stem leaves similar, sessile or shortly petiolate; leaves below capitula small, pinnatifid or entire. Capitula solitary, terminal. Involucre cup-shaped, 1-1.5 cm in diam.; phyllaries in 4 rows, scarious margin brown, outer phyllaries lanceolate, ca. 3.5 mm, abaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, middle and inner ones narrowly elliptic or linear-oblanceolate, ca. 5 mm, abaxially glabrous. Ray florets red; lamina narrowly elliptic, ca. 1.6 cm, apex 2-or 3-denticulate. Achenes ca. 2.5 mm. Corona 0.1-0.2 mm, margin shallowly obtusely lobed. Fl. and fr. May-Oct. 2n = 36.
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