Perennials, 20–50 cm (caudices fibrous-rooted). Herbage sparsely pubescent to tomentose (especially on abaxial leaf faces and among heads). Stems single or loosely clustered. Leaves progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades triangular, triangular-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 3–10(–15) × 1.5–4 cm, bases cordate to truncate or tapered, margins serrate or dentate (mid and distal leaves sessile, bractlike). Heads nodding, 6–10+ in racemiform-paniculiform arrays. Calyculi of 2–5+ lance-deltate to filiform bractlets (lengths 1/5–1/2 phyllaries). Phyllaries ± 8, 6–9 mm, tips green. Ray florets 0. Cypselae glabrous.

Phenology: Late summer.
Habitat: Montane meadows
Elevation: 3000–3500 m

Distribution

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N.Mex.

Discussion

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