Perennial, 15 – 20 cm tall, unbranched or branched above middle. Leaves basal and cauline, all petiolate or upper stem leaves sessile, ovate to broadly elliptic, 5 – 30 cm long, 2 – 6 cm broad, green on both sides, dorsally gland dotted, sparsely hairy to glabrous beneath, ± lyrately pinnately dissected, lateral lobes elliptic to deltoid with ± entire margins, terminal lobe triangular, large, with sinuate-dentate margins; upper cauline leaves sessile, oblong, linear-oblong or narrowly ovate with entire or sparsely dentate margins. Capitula many, pedunculate, in corymb-like, flat-topped synflorescencee. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 4 – 5 mm wide. Phyllaries 5-7-seriate, arachnoid to glabrescent, apically obtuse to ± acute; outer ones ovate, 2 – 3 mm long, 2 – 2.5 mm broad; median phyllaries narrowly oblong-ovate, 3 – 10 mm long, 1.5 – 2 mm wide; inner phyllaries ovate-elliptic, 10 – 12 mm long, 1 – 2 mm broad. Recptacular bristles 4 – 4.5 mm long, subulate. Corolla pale-purple, (10-) 13 – 16 mm long, tube 7 – 9 mm long, limb 6 – 7 mm long. Cypselas cylindrical, 2.5 – 3 mm long, glabrous, reddish-brown. Pappus white, outer bristles ca 3 mm long, inner bristles (10–) 13 – 15 mm long.