Plants 25-60+ cm. Stems proximally glabrous or stellate-pubescent, distally glabrous or stellate-pubescent. Leaves: basal 5-6+, cauline 0(-1+); blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 40-80 × 18-45+ mm, lengths 3-5+ times widths, bases cuneate, margins usually entire, apices rounded to obtuse, abaxial faces piloso-hirsute (hairs 1-3+ mm), adaxial glabrous. Heads 8-12+ in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles stellate-pubescent and stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 5-8+. Involucres hemispheric to campanulate, 8-10 (× 6-9) mm. Phyllaries 13-21+, apices acuminate, abaxial faces stellate-pubescent and stipitate-glandular, sometimes piloso-hirsute as well. Florets 30-60+; corollas yellow, ca. 12 mm. Cypselae (black or red-brown) columnar, 3-4 mm; pappi of ca. 40+, stramineous bristles in ± 2 series, 6-7 mm. Flowering Jun-Aug. Shaley sites; 1000-1300 m; Ky., Md., Ohio, Pa., Va., W.Va.