Herbs, erect to spreading, 1-4(-5) dm, glabrous or tomentose, grayish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5-1 dm, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves basal; petiole 0.5-3 cm, tomentose; blade suborbiculate, 0.5-2 × 0.5-2 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, mostly tomentose and grayish to greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, infrequently distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open to diffuse, 5-35(-45) × 5-35(-4) cm; branches glabrous or tomentose; bracts 0.5-3 × 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres somewhat appressed to branches, turbinate, 1-1.5 × 0.5-1 mm, glabrous or tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.3 mm. Flowers 1.5-2 mm; perianth white to rose, minutely glandular, rarely glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong to oblong-obovate, somewhat constricted near middle and flaring adaxially; stamens included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 1-1.5 mm.
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