Juvenile Leaves are in basal rosettes and 3 to 10 inches long, are toothed, and are hairy on both upper and lower surface, and have many long yellow spines spines.
Upper leaves are smaller and are also toothed and spiny.
Mature Stems are stout and branched and grow to be about to 1 meters tall. Flower Flowers are on short leafy-bracted peduncles or clustered at the ends of branches. Flowers are lavender to pale pink or sometimes creamy white. Bracts are pale and closely appressed and often have prominent white glandular dorsal ridges and are hairy. Biology Perennial with taproot.