Dioecious. Plants 3.5–16 cm. Stolons 1–2 cm. Basal leaves 1-nerved, spatulate to cuneate, 3–7 × 2–5 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-tomentose. Cauline leaves linear, 2–13 mm, distal flagged. Heads 2–5 in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 3–6.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7.5 mm. Pistillate involucres 4.5–7.5 mm. Phyllaries distally light brown, dark brown, or black. Corollas: staminate 2–3.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4.5 mm. Cypselae 0.8–1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm. 2n = 28.
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