Herbs 12-20 cm tall. Petiole ± greenish, narrow, sparsely arachnoid; leaf blade light green to mid-green, linear-oblanceolate, 6-16 × 0.8-2 cm, sparsely arachnoid, pinnatilobed to pinnatisect; lateral lobes 3-6 pairs, ± linear-triangular to broadly linear, patent, margin entire or with a single tooth or lobule near base on distal side; interlobes 2-4 mm wide, with 1 or 2 teeth or lobules; terminal lobe narrowly triangular-lingulate, margin often with 1-3 patent teeth or segments, basal segments linear. Scapes greenish, overtopping leaves, sparsely arachnoid but sometimes subglabrous even below capitulum. Capitulum 2.5-3.5 cm wide. Involucre ± pruinose, 0.9-1.1 cm wide, base rounded. Outer phyllaries 9-11(-13), light green to blackish green and grayish pruinose, slightly imbricate, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, outermost ones 4.5-6.5(-8) × (1.6-)1.9-2.3 mm and ca. 1/2 as long as inner ones, ± appressed to loosely so, with an evident whitish 0.2-0.3 mm wide border, margin ciliate, apex flat; inner phyllaries 1.2-1.5 cm, apex flat. Ligules yellow; outer ligules ± flat, outside striped grayish pink; inner ligules with reddish apical teeth. Stigmas yellow, sometimes with a few darker hairs. Anthers polliniferous; pollen grains irregular in size. Achene dark gray to blackish but straw-colored when unripe, 4.9-5.3 × 1-1.1 mm; body spinulose-squamulose in upper 1/2-2/3, ± gradually narrowing into a subcylindric 1.4-1.7 × ca. 0.3 mm cone; beak ca. 7 mm. Pappus yellowish white, 5-6 mm. Fl. summer. Agamosperm.
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