Perennial plants, sparsely to densely hirsute – pilose, mixed with glandular hairs. Stem erect – ascending, branched at the base. Basal leaves in rosette, withering at anthesis, oblanceolate – spathulate, 2–4 (–5.5) cm long, attenuate (including petiole), 0.3 – 0.5 (– 1 cm) wide, obtuse, entire, cauline leaves same as basal leaves, 2 – 3 (– 4) cm long, attenuate into 1 – 1.5 cm long petiole, middle ones sessile, upper most nearing synflorescence lanceolate, 0.8 – 1.2 cm long, ca 0.5 mm wide, acute, entire. Capitula campanulate, 0.8 – 1.5 cm across, 2 – 3 on each branch in racemose synflorescence. Peduncles densely white hirsute – villose, intermixed with stipitate glands. Capitular buds densely white lanate – shaggy, looks like cotton ball. Involucre 0.5 – 0.8 (– 1) cm in diameter, indumentum similar to peduncle. Phyllaries 2–seriate, linear – lanceolate, hirsute – pilose, acute – acuminate, with purple tinge at the apices, outer phyllaries 3–4 mm long, 1–1.2 mm wide, inner ones 5–6 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide. Ray florets rosy to pink, ca 6 mm long, corolla tube 2–2.5 mm long. Female eligulate florets absent. Disc florets yellow, 4 – 5 mm long, tube 1 – 1.5 mm long, limb 3 – 3.5 mm long including ca 0.5 mm long lobes. Cypselas immature, ca 2 mm long, brown, oblanceolate – obovate, hilum basal, sericeous. Outer bristles of pappus ca 0.5 mm long, inner ones 4 – 5 mm long, brownish.