Dioecious or gynoecious (staminate plants in equal frequencies as pistillates or none in populations, respectively). Plants 12–35(–45) cm. Stolons 3.5–11(–14) cm (mostly decumbent when young). Basal leaves 3–5-nerved, obovate-spatulate, obovate, rhombic-obovate, or suborbiculate, 30–95 × 12–45 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent to floccose-glabrescent. Cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–45 mm, distalmost flagged. Heads 4–12(–15) in tight corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 6–9 mm; pistillate (7–)8–13 mm. Phyllaries distally white. Corollas: staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–7 mm. Cypselae 1–2 mm, minutely papillate; pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. 2n = 56, 84, 70, 112.
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