Herbs, perennial, or subshrubs, 15-50 cm tall, caespitose, silvery gray or yellowish sericeous-pubescent. Leaves sessile, lowermost leaves 3-pinnatisect. Middle stem leaves: leaf blade elliptic-ovate or ovate, 1.5-4 × 1-2.5 cm, 2-or 3-pinnatisect; segments 2 or 3 pairs; lobules narrowly linear, 2-12 × 0.5-1 mm. Uppermost leaves and leaflike bracts pinnatisect or 3-sect or entire; bracts linear. Synflorescence a broad panicle. Involucre subglobose or ovoid-campanulate, 1-2 mm in diam. Marginal female florets 3-7. Disk florets 7 or 8, bisexual; corolla limb puberulent. Achenes ellipsoid. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 16, 32, 36.
Dry terraces, floodlands, saline-alkali soils, open forests, semidesert steppes, wastelands; at middle or low elevations.
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