Herbs, spreading, not scapose, (2-)3-4.5 × 1-2(-3) dm, glabrous. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 3 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-2 dm, pubescent among leaves. Leaves basal or sheathing up stem 1-3 cm, 1 per node; petiole 2.5-4 cm, tomentose; blade narrowly elliptic, 2-5 × (0.8-)1-1.5(-1.7) cm, grayish-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, 10-25 × 5-15 cm; branches dichotomous, glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 2-3 mm. Peduncles erect, slender, 0.2-1 cm, glabrous. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 3.5-4 × 2-2.5 mm; teeth 5(-6), erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 3.5-4 mm; perianth ochroleucous to pale yellow or, rarely, yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 5, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 5-6 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3.5-4 mm, glabrous.
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