Ascending, sometimes decumbent  perennial herbs with almost glabrous collar and dark brown tubers on the roots.Stem 10 – 15 (-30) cm tall, arachnoid hairy to ± glabrous, branched in upper part. Radical leaves ovate-lanceolate, 5 – 6  (-8) x 2 – 3  cm, crispate, acuminate, margin erose to entire, often wavy,  base attenuate, 5-nerved;  cauline leaves  smaller and narrower. Capitula solitary, terminal, erect, on 3 – 5  cm long peduncles. Flowering Involucres 15 – 20 x 6 – 8  mm. Phyllaries  biseriate, glabrous, margin thin, white hyaline, apices obtuse and hairy; outer ones ovate, 7 x 5 mm, inner ones oblong, 17 x 5 mm. Florets 1.5 times longer than involucres, pinkish-purple.  Cypselas (6-) 7– 9 x c. 2 mm,  glabrous, brown, somewhat triangular, sulcate, muricate. Pappus biseriate, bristles 30-40, 12 – 14  mm long, finely plumose at the base and scabrid above, silky white.