Dioecious. Plants 6–15 cm. Stolons 1–10 cm. Basal leaves 1-nerved, spatulate, 18–45 × 2–4 mm, tips mucronate, faces ± gray-tomentose. Cauline leaves linear, 8–13 mm, not flagged (apices acuminate). Heads 3–7 in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 4–5.3 mm; pistillate 4–5 mm. Phyllaries (bases each with distinct dark brown or blackish spot) distally white or light brown. Corollas: staminate 2–3.2 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm. Cypselae 0.5–1 mm, slightly papillate; pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm. 2n = 28.