Authors: Spreng.  

Botanical Description

Rosettes solitary or in tight clumps, perennial. Leaves 5-15cm long, spreading or ascending, more or less oblanceolate with many well spaced triangular lobes (dandelion-like), white-woolly beneath. Flowerheads up to 3.5cm across, the florets deep purple, solitary, sessile, or on a stalk almost as long as the leaves, mid summer to early autumn. Kashmir to Tibet, on open slopes at 3200-4900m.