Plants 12-70+ cm. Stems proximally piloso-hirsute (hairs 4-6+ mm), distally piloso-hirsute (hairs 4-6+ mm). Leaves: basal 1-4, cauline 6-9; blades oblanceolate to lanceolate, 25-150 × 10-35+ mm, lengths 2.5-5+ times widths, bases cuneate, margins usually entire, apices ± acute, faces piloso-hirsute (hairs 3-5+ mm). Heads 3-25+ in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. Peduncles piloso-hirsute, stellate-pubescent, and stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 10-15+. Involucres campanulate, 8-9(-12) mm. Phyllaries 16-21+, apices acute, abaxial faces piloso-hirsute, stellate-pubescent, and stipitate-glandular. Florets 25-40+; corollas yellow, 5-8 mm. Cypselae columnar, 2.5-4 mm; pappi of 50-60+, white or stramineous bristles in ± 2 series, 5-6 mm.

Flowering Jul-Sep. Grasslands, pine forests; 2000-2700 m; Tex.; Mexico; Central America (Guatemala).