Herbs, spreading to often compact mats, 0.2-2.5 × 2-10 dm, floccose. Stems: caudex absent or spreading; aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, slender, solid, not fistulose, usually arising directly from a taproot, 0.2-2 dm, floccose. Leaves basal, typically not in rosettes; petiole 0.5-2 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade oblanceolate or oblong to elliptic, 0.5-3 × 0.5-1.5 cm, densely tomentose abaxially, mostly floccose and grayish or greenish adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences umbellate or compound-umbellate, occasionally capitate or even reduced to single involucre, 0.3-2 × 0.3-2 dm; branches floccose; bracts 3-8, semileaflike at proximal node, 0.3-2 × 0.2-1 cm, often scalelike distally. Involucres 1 per node, usually campanulate, 3-7 × 3-8 mm, floccose; teeth 5-8, erect, 0.1-0.5 mm. Flowers 4-8 mm, including 0.7-2 mm stipelike base; perianth yellow, densely pubescent abaxially; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl lanceolate to elliptic, 1.5-5 × 1-3 mm, those of inner whorl lanceolate to fan-shaped, 1.5-7 × 2-4 mm; stamens exserted, 2-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 4-5 mm, glabrous except for sparsely pubescent beak.
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