Plants 40–60 cm. Stems yellowish green, moderately leafy at flowering, tomentum compact. Leaves grayish green; blades 1-nerved, linear, 10–20 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces tomentulose to densely tomentose. Involucres 11.2–16 mm. Phyllaries 16–25, apices erect, acute to short-acuminate, outer abaxial faces tomentose or glabrous, inner often glabrous. Corollas 9.8–11.8 mm, tubes puberulent or glabrous, lobes 0.7–0.9 mm, villous; style appendages longer than stigmatic portions. Cypselae glabrous or densely hairy; pappi 9.5–12 mm. 2n = 18.
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