Perennials, 10–25(–60) cm; taprooted. Stems decumbent-ascending to prostrate (greenish, sometimes producing erect branches), hirsute to hispido-pilose, minutely glandular. Leaves basal (not persistent) and cauline; (greenish) proximal blades oblanceolate to obovate, 5–12 × 1–3 mm, reduced distally, margins with 1–2 pairs of teeth or shallow lobes, distal entire, faces piloso-hirsute, densely minutely glandular. Heads 1–3. Involucres 2.5–4 × 5–10 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3(–4) series (erect, apices appressed), sparsely piloso-hirsute, minutely glandular. Ray florets 42–60, corollas white, without abaxial midstripe, 3–7 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 1.8–2.4 mm. Cypselae 1–1.2 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 7–10 bristles.
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