Perennial, caespitose, herbs, usually darkened in dry condition. Stem 20–40 (–55) cm tall, leafy, corymbosely branched in the upper half, branches few, 1.5–2.5 cm long, laxly crisped hairy or glabrescent. Leaves thick, herbaceous – membranaceous, sparsely crisped hairy – pilose. Basal leaves oblong–lanceolate or somewhat oblanceolate, 3–8 cm long (including 1 cm long petiole), 5–8 mm wide, entire, acute–subobtuse, cauline leaves narrowly oblong or linear–lanceolate, 2–3 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, subsessile – sessile, acute, somewhat appressed to the stem, uppermost gradually smaller and narrower, but similar to lower cauline leaves. Capitula solitary, in corymbiform synflorescence, (1.5–) 2–2.5 cm across. Involucre 1–1.5 cm in diameter, subglobose, covered with long crisped hairs – somewhat villous at the base, intermixed with glands. Phyllaries 2–seriate, almost equal, outer phyllaries 5–6 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, lanceolate, acute, inner ones 7–8 mm long, 1–1.2 mm wide, linear–lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, green–dark purplish. Ray florets white–pale, rosy–violet, 7–9 mm long, corolla tube 3–4 mm long, almost equalling to ligule. Female eligulate florets absent. Disc florets yellow, 4.5– 5 mm long, tube 1–1.5 mm long, limb 3.5–4 mm long including ca 0.5 mm long lobes. Cypselas 3–4 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, oblong, brown, densely appressed sericeous. Outer bristles of pappus ca < 0.5 mm long, inner ones 6–7.5 mm long, brownish, scabrid–barbellate.