Lagenophora stipitata

Roots fibrous, produced at intervals from slender, spreading rhizomes (c. 0.8–1.5 mm diam. when dry). Leaves in a loose basal rosette or on lower (usually up to c. 15 cm) stem, usually 15–55(–150) mm long, 7–20(–35) mm wide, obtuse to subacute, variably hirsute, margin obtusely serrate (3–)4–5 pairs of teeth. Scape 4–12(–20) cm high, hirsute (sometimes sparsely so), bearing a few linear to narrowly oblanceolate bracts to c. 5–10 mm long (sometimes more), usually inconspicuous; capitula 4–8 mm wide; involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate-acuminate, 3–4.5 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, finely pointed. Ray florets 40–70, ligules 2.3–3.3 mm long, white to mauve, pinkish, blue or purple. Disc florets c. 15, yellowish-green. Cypselas oblanceolate, to 2.2–3 mm long and 0.7–1mm wide, brown or sometimes purplish, margins often paler and sometimes glandular; beak to c. 1 mm long. Flowers spring and summer.