Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.5-0.9 × 1-2 dm, floccose, grayish. Stems matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.4-)0.5-0.7 dm, floccose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.05-0.1(-0.15) cm, tomentose; blade ob-lanceolate to elliptic, 0.4-0.8(-1) × 0.2-0.4(-0.5) cm, densely white-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.5-1 cm; branches absent; bracts 5-6, lanceolate, scalelike, 2-2.5 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 5-7 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, 2-2.5 × 2-2.5 mm, membranous, tomentose and sparsely glandular; teeth 6-7, erect to spreading, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers (2-)2.5-3 mm; perianth yellow, sparsely glandular; tepals connate proximal 4-2, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 3-3.5 mm; filaments pubescent proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.8-3 mm, glabrous except for minutely bristly beak.
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