Herbs, erect, 1-3 dm, glabrous, yellowish green to gray. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.2-1 dm, glabrous. Leaves basal; petiole 0.5-4 cm, tomentose; blade orbiculate to subcordate, 0.5-2(-2.5) × 0.5-2(-2.5) cm, white-tomentose abaxially, tomentose to floccose and grayish or greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, open, narrow, 5-25 × 5-10(-15) cm; branches glabrous; bracts 0.5-1.5 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres terminal at tips of slender branchlets at least proximally, not appressed to branches, turbinate-campanulate, 1.5-2 × 1.5-2 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 1-1.5 mm; perianth cream, reddish green to reddish proximally, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 1-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, lenticular, 1-1.3 mm.
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