Plants 25–70 cm. Stems 1–3, erect, sometimes curved-ascending, sparsely villous to tomentose, eglandular. Leaves: basal blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 80–310 × 9–30 mm, margins entire or undulate, ciliate; cauline sessile, blades lanceolate, 30–120 × 5–20 mm; faces sparsely tomentose, eglandular. Heads 4–12 in open, racemiform arrays. Peduncles 0–3 cm. Involucres campanulate, 10–23 × 12–20 mm (in axils of leafy bract). Phyllaries in 4–5 series, green, lanceolate, 5–12 mm, unequal, margins entire, ciliate, apices acute, faces villous. Ray florets 17–25; corollas 6–14.5 mm. Disc florets 35–60; corollas 7–11 mm. Cypselae narrowly oblong, 4.5–6.5 mm, 4-angled, faces striate, villous; pappi tawny, 5.8–8 mm. 2n = 36.
