Perennial herbs with slender branched oblique woody stock producing non-flowering rosulate or erect simple or branched flowering stems, to ca. 100 cm tall, sparingly minutely pilose or glabrous. Basal and lower cauline leaves orbicular to ovate-spatulate, crenate to dentate, long petiolate; upper cauline leaves oblong, obtuse, crenate to pinnatifid, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, dark green, puberulous. Heads 2.5-6 cm across, solitary, terminating branches, long pedunculate; involucre ca. 10×10-20 mm, bracts 3-seriate, oblong to lanceolate, green, margins and apex narrowly dark purplish, scarious. Ray florets white, 15-25 mm long, disc florets yellow. Achenes 2×0.5 mm, black, with 10 strong, buff ribs.

ILAN: Tatung, Liu 928. NANTOU: Jenai, Chingching Farm, Chen 971; Patungkuan, Chen 952.

Eurasian, now naturalized throughout most of the temperate northern hemisphere. Taiwan, cultivated and naturalized in the mountains from mid to high elevations.