Herbs, spreading, compact, 0.2-0.6 × (0.3-)0.4-1 dm, tomentose. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising directly from a taproot, (0.3-)0.4-0.6 dm, floccose, with a whorl of 3-5 leaflike bracts ca. or slightly below midlength, 0.4-0.8(-1) × 0.15-0.4(-0.7) cm. Leaves basal, in well-defined rosettes; petiole 1-2(-3) cm, tomentose; blade oval to round-oval, 1-2(-3) × 1-2(-3) cm, densely whitish-or grayish-tomentose on both surfaces, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences capitate, 1-2(-2.5) cm wide; branches absent; bracts absent immediately below involucre. Involucres 1 per node, broadly campanulate, 3-5(-6) × 4-7(-10) mm, tomentose; teeth 6-12, erect, 0.5-0.9 mm. Flowers (3-)4-8 mm, including 0.5-0.8 mm stipelike base; perianth bright yellow, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong-obovate; stamens included to exserted, 3-6 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 4-5 mm, glabrous.
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