Stem 3-6 dm tall
at maturity; leaves triternate, divisions deeply cleft in to numerous linear
sections, basal leaves long - petiolate, involucral sessile; flowers solitary,
whitish, 3-6 cm broad; sepals bluish outside; achene villous, reflexed in fruit,
each with a slender, elongate, hairy style, together producing a large globose,
beautiful head; abundant in mountain meadows, blooming at the edges of the snow
banks.