Small branching herb hugging ground in small patches; lvs spreading, rosulate at tips of branchlets. Lamina submembr., ± 10-20-(30) × (3)-5-10 mm.; linear-to oblong-lanceolate to narrow-oblong; upper surface glab. or nearly so, midrib and us. main veins evident; lower surface densely clad in appressed soft to satiny white hairs, midrib us. distinct; apex subacute, apiculate; margins slightly recurved, minutely distantly denticulate, cuneately narrowed to slender petiole up to 2 cm. long; sheath membr., ± = lamina. Scape almost filiform, glab. or with a few spreading hairs, ± 4-10 cm. long; bracts almost filiform, with widened bases, few (sts absent), lowermost up to c. 10 mm. long. Capitula ± 10-15 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, acute to acuminate, apiculate, scarious, midrib distinct. Rays-florets linear, up to c. 8 mm. long, teeth very narrow-triangular; disk-florets 4-5 mm. long, ± glandular at base, teeth triangular. Achenes narrow-cylindric, 1-2 mm. long, glab. or nearly so (in some forms with stiff hairs on obscure ribs). Pappus-hairs up to 4-5 mm. long, very slender, sordid-white, very minutely barbellate.
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