Subshrubs, 20-60(-80) cm. Stems branched mostly in proximal ³ / 4 , ± piloso-villous, stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades lanceolate to elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, 3-20(-25) mm wide, bases often subclasping or sometimes attenuate and not clasping, margins flat, sharply spinulose-toothed, faces loosely villous or glabrous, stipitate-glandular. Peduncles 5-25 cm. Involucres 12-20 × 15-20(-30) mm. Ray florets (15-)18-60(-85); corollas usually lavender, seldom white. Style-branch appendages shorter than stigmatic lines.