Plants glabrescent; stems erect, striate. Leaves long petiolate, oblong to elliptic, 6-12 mm long, margins irregularly toothed or pinnatifid, segments 6-8 pairs, lanceolate, acuminate, dentate. Inflorescence paniculate. Heads many, erect or nodding. Involucre ca. 7 mm long, bracts linear. Florets yellowish purple, tips of pappus bristles pale rose-purple. Achens narrowly cylindric, 2-2.5 mm long, distinctly 10-12-ribbed, puberulous, strawberry colored. Pappus white, tinged purplish, bristles copious.

TAIPEI: Hsintien, Liu 205; Wulai, Peng 8366. ILAN: Chiaohsi, Liu 537. HSINCHU: Lienhwashih, Peng 5138; Sanchiao, Peng 10401. MIAOLI: Houlong, Peng 11581; Shihtan, Peng 13929. NANTOU: Shalihsien Forest Path, Peng 10943. PINGTUNG: Mutan, Liu 107; Shuangliu, Hsiao 1098. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Peng 10686; Paiyun Waterfall, Chen 400. HUALIEN: Tali to Tatung, Ho 1203; Hungyeh Hot Spring, Peng 11629.

Native of South America. Taiwan, fields and roadsides, up to 1,700 m.