Herbs 4-12 cm tall, perennial, rosulate. Taproot and short woody caudex with residues of old leaf bases. Stem solitary, erect, branched apically or from near base, densely tomentose but glabrescent with age, distantly leafy. Rosette leaves oblanceolate, 1.5-6 × 0.5-1.2 cm, both faces tomentulose to glabrescent, base attenuate into a petiole-like portion and semiamplexicaul, margin sinuately to runcinately dentate and/or runcinately pinnatifid, apex obtuse to acute; lobes (if present) narrowly triangular, apex acute to acuminate. Stem leaves none or few, similar to rosette leaves but smaller, with narrower lobes, and apex acuminate. Synflorescence laxly corymbiform, with 4-8 capitula. Capitula with 13-18 florets; peduncle 1-6 cm, slender, densely tomentose. Involucre cylindric to campanulate, 1-1.1 cm. Phyllaries dark to blackish green, ciliate otherwise abaxially glabrous, apex acute; outer phyllaries lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, longest 1/3-1/2(-2/3) as long as inner ones; inner phyllaries 10-12, adaxially densely pubescent with appressed shiny hairs. Anther tube apically or entirely greenish. Style yellow upon drying. Achene not seen when mature. Pappus white, ca. 7 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.
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