Plants 10–30(–40) cm; proximal indument glabrescent (early ± arachnoid, glabrous by flowering). Stems mostly 1–12; branches mainly proximal. Leaves basal (withering) and ± cauline, 1–7(–10) cm; largest blades linear and terete or ± elliptic and plane, ± succulent, 0–1-pinnately lobed; lobes 1–2(–5) pairs, remote, ± terete. Heads (± radiant) mostly 1–5 per stem. Peduncles 2–8(–10) cm, distally usually ± stipitate-glandular and, sometimes, ± arachnoid (at least early, often glabrescent by fruit). Involucres ± hemispheric to obconic (bases pale and ± truncate in fruit). Phyllaries: longest 8–10(–12) mm; outer usually glabrescent in fruit, apices erect, acute, ± rigid. Florets: corollas white to pinkish, 5–8 mm (inner); peripheral corollas spreading, zygomorphic, enlarged. Cypselae (3–)6–8 mm; pappi of (1–)4(–5) scales in 1 series, longest scales 6–8.5 mm, lengths 1–1.3 times corollas (apices visible among corollas at flowering). 2n = 10.
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