Plants 20–110 cm; caudices branched, thick, and woody or rhizomes short, woody. Stems 1–30+, simple, sparsely to densely puberulent proximally to densely so in arrays. Leaves: basal and proximal winged-petiolate-subpetiolate (poorly differentiated), blades to winged petioles; blades oblanceolate, largest to 8 cm, usually smaller, gradually attenuate, margins entire, slightly undulate, sparsely to moderately soft-puberulent, somewhat viscid (stipitate-glands very small); mostly withering by flowering, new rosettes sometimes present; cauline petiolate (petioles 0.5–1 mm), blades (linear) elliptic proximally to (narrowly) lanceolate or ovate distally, largest 50–80 × 15–25 mm, reduced distally and becoming more ovate, 15–20 mm in arrays, margins entire or serrulate. Heads 1–140, not secund, in thyrsi-form-paniculiform arrays, sometimes compact, nearly as wide as tall, and rounded, sometimes appearing almost rounded corymbiform, proximal branches sometimes much elongate, not secund, spreading to ascending. Peduncles 0.5–5(–2.5) mm, densely short hispid-canescent, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular, ± viscid; bracts small, grading into phyllaries. Involucres broadly campanulate, (3.5–)4–5(–5.5) mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, unequal, oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute to attenuate, sparsely to moderately strigose, especially distally, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular, ± viscid. Ray florets 6–10; laminae ca. 3–5 × 1–2 mm. Disc florets 10–20; corollas 3–4 mm, lobes ca. 1 mm. Cypselae 1.5–2.5 mm, ± moderately short-strigose; pappi 3–4 mm. 2n = 18.
