Plants erect, 0.3-1.5 × 0.3-1 dm, thinly tomentose. Leaves basal or nearly so; petiole 0.5-2(-3) cm; blade round-ovate, (0.5-)0.8-1.5(-2) × (0.3-)0.5-1.5(-2) cm, thinly floccose to tomentose. Inflorescences with involucres in small clusters 0.5-1 cm diam., green to tan or reddish; bracts 2, linear to linear-lanceolate, acicular, 2-7 cm × 1-2.5 mm, awns slightly curved, 0.5-1 mm. Involucres 1, green to tan, cylindric, 3-angled but 3-ribbed, 3-4 mm, markedly transverse corrugate, glabrate; teeth 3, equal, 2-4.5 mm; awns uncinate, 0.6-1 mm. Flowers 1, included to slightly exserted; perianth white, cylindric, 2-2.5 mm, thinly pubescent abaxially; tepals connate ca. 2/ 3 their length, monomorphic, oblong, acute, entire apically; stamens 6, slightly exserted; filaments distinct, 0.8-1 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, ovate, 0.4-0.5 mm. Achenes brown, lenticular, 2.5-3 mm. 2n = 38.
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