Herbs, erect to slightly spreading, perennial, 2.5-5(-6) × 3-8 dm, glabrous, glaucous. Stems: caudex compact to spreading; aerial flowering stems erect, solid, not fistulose, 1-3 dm, glabrous or thinly floccose. Leaves basal, sheathing up stems 0.5-15 cm; petiole (0.5-)1-2.5(-4) cm, densely pilose; blade ovate to rounded, (0.5-)1-2(-2.3) × (0.5-)1-2(-2.5) cm, usually sparsely pilose and grayish to whitish on both surfaces, margins undulate. Inflorescences narrowly cymose, open, 10-35(-40) × 5-20 cm; branches not fistulose, glabrous, glaucous; bracts 3, scalelike, 0.3-0.8(-1) × 0.2-0.8 mm. Peduncles erect, straight, capillary to slender, 0.5-2.5(-3) cm, glabrous. Involucres turbinate, (0.8-)1-1.6(-2) × (0.8-)1-1.2(-1.5) mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.3-0.8 mm. Flowers (1.2-)1.5-2.5 mm; perianth yellowish to yellowish red or reddish with greenish or reddish to reddish brown midribs, glabrous; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl obovate with slightly enlarged, auriculate bases, those of inner whorl obovate; stamens included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally or glabrous. Achenes dark brown, 3-gonous, 1.5-2 mm, glabrous.
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