Annual or biennial herbs, stems terete, erect, 40-60 cm tall, usually with many short appressed hairs, branching near base, branches divaricately ascending. Radical leaves oblanceolate, 4-6.5 cm long, 2-3.5 mm wide, apex obtuse to acute, base narrowed, entire or shallowly crenate, margins minutely ciliate, glabrous or scarcely strigose on both surfaces, usually withering at anthesis. Cauline leaves numerous, linear-oblanceolate or linear, 2.5-6 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, apex obtuse to acute, base narrowed, sessile, margins entire or remotely serrate toward apex, glabrous or scarcely strigose on both surfaces, margins minutely ciliate; leaves on branches gradually smaller, becoming bract-like toward inflorescence. Heads solitary or few on ascending branches or peduncle-like branches, 2.4-3.2 cm across; peduncle 3-5 mm long. Involucre hemispheric or bowl-shaped, 7-9 mm tall, 13-20 mm across, bracts 2- or 3- seriate, herbaceous, green, nearly equal, linear-lanceolate to subulate, entire, margins narrowly transparent, hirsute on outside, apex acuminate to attenuate-acuminate, inner bracts usually slightly longer, 7.6-9.5 mm long, 1-1.4 mm wide, outer bracts 6.5-9.3 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide. Ray florets 17-25, 1 or 2 seriate, ligules blue-purple, 9.5-12 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide. Disc florets yellow, 4-5 mm long, unequally 5-lobed. Pappus reddish, 4.5-6 mm long at maturity. Achenes obovate, compressed, rusty brown, 2.5-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, sericeous,, glandular above. Fl. Mar-Apr.

TAITUNG: Peinan, Kitamura s. n. 1932. HUALIEN: Taroko, Tatewaki & Kitamura s. n. 1932.

Widespread in eastern Asia. Taiwan, confined to the eastern part, from low to medium elevations; rare, not collected for more than 60 years.