Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.5-1 × 0.5-3 dm, thinly tomentose to floccose, grayish. Stems spread-ing, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.6-1(-1.5) dm, thinly tomentose to floccose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.5-2.5(-3.5) cm, tomentose; blade elliptic to obovate or suborbiculate, (0.7-)0.9-1.5(-2) × (0.3-)0.5-0.9(-1.1) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, less so and greenish-tomentose adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 1-1.5 cm; branches absent; bracts 3, triangular, scalelike, 1.5-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 3-5 per cluster, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 2-3.5(-4) × 2-3(-3.5) mm, weakly rigid, floccose at least on teeth; teeth 5-7, erect, 0.4-1 mm. Flowers 2-3(-3.5) mm; perianth creamy white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 5, monomorphic, oblanceolate; stamens exserted, 2-3 mm; filaments sparsely pubescent proximally. Achenes brown, 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous, occasionally minutely papillate on beak.
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