Perennials, 1–6 cm (cespitose); taprooted, caudex branches usually relatively slender, lignescent, sometimes relatively elongate. Stems erect, sparsely to densely villous to hirsuto-villous, densely minutely glandular. Leaves all or mostly basal (persistent; petioles densely spreading-ciliate, cilia relatively thin-based); blades spatulate to oblanceolate-spatulate, 5–20(–28) × (1.5–)2–6 mm (bases abruptly contracted to petioles), margins entire, faces densely hirsuto-canescent, densely minutely glandular. Heads 1. Involucres 3.5–4.5 × 5–8(–10) mm. Phyllaries in 2(–3) series (often purplish,) sparsely hirsuto-villous, densely villous basally, evenly, densely minutely glandular. Ray florets (12–)16–24; corollas white to pinkish or lavender, sometimes with faint pink or lavender abaxial midstripe, 4.5–6 mm, laminae weakly coiling. Disc corollas 1.9–2.1 mm. Cypselae 1–1.2 mm, 2-nerved, faces strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of (11–)13–20 bristles.
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