Perennials 2–20 cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, rhizomes or caudices sometimes branched. Stems erect, moderately villoso-hirsute (hairs sometimes retrorse), eglandular. Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline; basal blades oblanceolate to spatulate or subspatulate, 20–50(–80) × 4–10 mm, margins entire, (apices rounded) faces moderately villoso-hirsute, eglandular; cauline broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate-oblong, gradually reduced distally. Heads 1(–2, very rarely –4). Involucres 6–8 × 12–20 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series (somewhat foliaceous, usually green, faces sometimes purplish throughout or at tips), villous (usually mostly on proximal 1/2, hairs rigid, usually oriented in single direction, cross walls sometimes colored), eglandular. Ray florets 100–200; corollas white to pink-purple, 4–6 mm, laminae erect (filiform, 0.3–1 mm wide), not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 3.7–4.7 mm. Cypselae 1.5 mm (immature), 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 20–30 (non-accrescent) bristles. 2n = 18.
