Perennials, 20–80(–100+) cm. Stems erect, stramineous to red-brown, villous and/or stipitate-glandular (at least distally). Cauline leaf blades lanceolate or lance-attenuate (broadest proximal to midpoints), 35–70(–90) mm, lengths 2–4(–10) times widths, bases usually clasping (± cordate), margins usually entire, rarely serrate to denticulate (teeth apiculate), apices acute to attenuate, faces stipitate-glandular. Heads in corymbiform arrays or borne singly. Involucres broadly urceolate to globose, 8–12 × 12–20+ mm (usually subtended by leaflike bracts). Phyllaries in 5–6 series, spreading to appressed, linear or to lance-linear or lanceolate, apices slightly recurved, straight, or incurved, filiform to subulate, ± stipitate-glandular, sometimes moderately resinous as well. Ray florets 10–35; laminae 8–15(–20) mm. Cypselae stramineous, 3–5 mm, apices coronate to knobby, faces smooth or striate; pappi of 2–3 contorted to curled, usually smooth, sometimes barbellulate, subulate scales 2.5–4 mm, shorter than disc corollas. 2n = 12.
