Subshrubs, 15-45 cm tall; indumentum of stellate hairs. Old branches gray, twisted; young branches brownish, densely and appressed white powdery-puberulent. Petiole to 8 mm; leaf blade cuneate, elliptic, or suborbicular, 0.5-1 × 0.4-0.6 cm, gray-green, appressed powdery-puberulent, glabrescent, palmate-pinnately or pinnately 4-or 5-divided; segments linear; leaves below synflorescence 3-lobed. Synflorescence terminal, a solitary capitulum or irregular flat-topped cyme. Capitula apically solitary or 3-8; peduncles 2.5-7 cm. Involucres hemispheric or obconical, 6-8 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 4 rows, outer ones ovate or broadly ovate, ca. 2.5 mm, abaxially densely appressed powdery-puberulent, scarious margin brown, middle ones elliptic, 4-4.5 mm, abaxially densely and appressed powdery-puberulent, inner ones linear-oblanceolate, ca. 4 mm, abaxially glabrescent. Ray florets 5-15; lamina yellow, elliptic, apex minutely 2-denticulate. Achenes ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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