Dioecious or gynoecious (staminate plants rare or in equal frequency to pistillates, respectively). Plants 5–13 cm. Stolons 1–4 cm. Basal leaves 1-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–19 × 2.5–6 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent. Cauline leaves linear, 5–20 mm, not flagged (apices acute). Heads 2–5(–9) in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate (3.5–)4.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 4–8 mm. Phyllaries distally dark brown, black, or olivaceous. Corollas: staminate 2.5–4.5 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm. Cypselae 0.6–1.6 mm, glabrous or papillate; pappi: staminate 2.5–4.5 mm; pistillate 4–5.5 mm. 2n = 56, 98, 112.
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