An erect branching herb, 20-70 cm tall stems ribbed. Leaves mostly ovate-elliptic, cuneate at base, acute or obtuse, apiculate, subentire or obscurely toothed, villous dorsally, up to 10-12 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, on petioles up to 2.5 cm long. Heads many, paniculate-corymbose, 40-100-flowered; bracts of involucre lanceolate, puberulent, 4-5-seriate, 6-7 mm long; corollas slightly exserted, violet or rarely paler to white, 4-5 mm long; anthers and style-branches violet. Achenes obovoid-oblong, mostly 5-angled, glabrous, glandular, 1-1.5 mm long; pappus hairs 2-3 mm long, 1-seriate, caducous, white. |
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