Herbs, erect, 1-3 dm, glabrous or rarely sparsely floccose, mostly greenish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, (0.3-)0.5-1.5(-2.5) dm, glabrous, rarely sparsely floccose. Leaves basal and cauline; basal: petiole (0.5-)1-4(-5) cm, sparsely floccose, blade oblong, 1-3(-5) × 0.3-1.2(-1.6) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose to glabrate and greenish adaxially; cauline: petiole 0.3-2 cm, sparsely floccose, blade elliptic to oblong, 0.5-1.5 × 0.2-0.8 cm, similar to basal blade. Inflorescences cymose, occasionally distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, (2-)5-20(-25) cm; branches glabrous or rarely sparsely floccose; bracts 1-5(-7) × 0.5-1(-1.5) mm. Peduncles erect, straight, slender, 0.5-4.5(-6) cm, glabrous. Involucres terminal at tips of slender branchlets proximally, not appressed to branches, turbinate, (2-)2.5-3 × 2-3 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.5 mm. Flowers 1.5-2 mm; perianth white to rose, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong; stamens mostly included, 1-2 mm; filaments glabrous; styles 0.2-0.3 mm. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous; beak smooth.
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