Dioecious or gynoecious (staminate plants in equal frequency as pistillates or none in populations, respectively). Plants 5–20 cm (stems sometimes stipitate-glandular, especially in dioecious diploids). Stolons 2–7 cm (woolly). Basal leaves 1–3-nerved, spatulate, 15–20 × 4–6 mm, tips mucronate, abaxial faces gray-tomentose, adaxial green-glabrous (margins white woolly). Cauline leaves linear, 7–16 mm, (apices acute) not flagged. Heads 5–8 in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 4.5–7 mm; pistillate 5–7(–9) mm. Phyllaries (relatively wide), distally white (apices acuminate). Corollas: staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5 mm. Cypselae 0.8–2 mm, glabrous or slightly papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–8.5 mm. 2n = 28, 56, 84, 112, 140.
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