Perennial, non-tuberous, subscapiform, 20 – 25 cm tall herbs with vertical rootstock. Stem reduced, leafy, sulcate. Leaves linear, 8 x 0.2 cm, 3-veined, pubescent, semiamplexicaule, sinuate, obtuse. Peduncle about 15 cm long, leafless, bearing a single capitulum. Flowering capitula turbinate, 20 – 22 x 5 – 6 mm, fruiting capilula 30 – 32 x 8 – 9 mm. Involucre biseriate, cylindrical. Phyllaries wooly-pubescent; outer ones 3 – 6 x 1 – 2 mm, triangular, entire, inner ones 10 – 12 x 2 – 3 mm, linear lanceolate, entire, acute-obtuse. Florets yellow, longer than involucres. Cypsela 13 – 14 mm long, ribbed, minutely puberulous to glabrous, muricate, grayish. Pappus uniseriate, bristles 20-22, 17 mm long, plumose below, scabrous above.