Herbs 2-4 cm tall, perennial, glabrous, glaucescent. Roots shoot-bearing; subterranean shoots slender, often branched. Stem delicate, branched from base, leafy. Basal and stem leaves with a 4-14 mm petiole; leaf blade ovate, orbicular, or elliptic, 1-2.6[-3.5] × 0.4-1[-1.7] cm, base cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded to acute. Synflorescence tufted-corymbiform, with few to many capitula. Capitula with 9-11 florets; peduncle filiform, most shorter than involucre. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 9-10 × 2-3 mm. Phyllaries green, abaxially glabrous, margin scarious; outer phyllaries ovate to lanceolate, longest 2-3 mm, apex acute; inner phyllaries 8, apex ± acute. Florets yellow. Corolla 7-9 mm. Anther tube 2-2.5 mm. Achene pale yellowish, columnar to fusiform, ca. 5 mm, apically more strongly attenuate. Pappus 4-5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep. 2n = 14.
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