Perennials, short-lived, 12–20 cm; taprooted, caudices simple or branched. Stems (single or multiple from bases) decumbent-ascending (branched from midstems), strigose (hairs fine, ascending-appressed), eglandular. Leaves mostly basal (persistent); blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 10–30 × 2–6 mm, cauline reduced distally, linear, margins entire, strigose, eglandular. Heads 1(–3 on proximal branches). Involucres 3.5–4 × 6–7 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, sparsely hispid, minutely glandular. Ray florets 75–125; corollas white to purplish 5–8 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 1.8–2.2 mm (throats white-indurate and somewhat inflated). Cypselae 0.7–0.9 mm, 2-nerved, sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 5–8 bristles.
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