Herbs, 5-20 × 5-10 dm, grayish. Aerial flowering stems slender, 4-10(-15) dm, floccose to densely tomentose. Leaves: petiole (rosette) 0.3-1.2 cm, or petiole (cauline) 0.2-0.5 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade oblanceolate to oblong, 1-7 × 0.3-1.5 cm, densely tomentose abaxially, floccose adaxially not thickened and auriculate-subclasping proximally; margins entire or slightly revolute. Inflorescences 3-10 × 2-7 cm; bracts triangular, 1-4 mm. Peduncles 0.1-0.5 cm, tomentose to floccose. Involucres turbinate to campanulate, 2.5-4 × 2-3 mm, tomentose to floccose abaxially, glabrous adaxially; teeth 5-6, 0.4-1 mm. Flowers 1-2.5 mm; perianth white or cream to rose; tepals: those of outer whorl obovate, 1-2 × 0.9-1.5 mm, those of inner whorl narrowly ovate to oblong, 1.5-4 × 1.2-1.8 mm; stamens usually included, 1-2 mm. Achenes 1.5-2 mm. 2n = 40.
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