Subshrubs, compact, not scapose, 0.2-0.8 × 0.5-2(-3) dm, reddish-or tannish-tomentose, reddish. Stems erect to slightly spreading, often with persistent leaf bases, up to 4 height of plant; caudex stems compact; aerial flowering stems spreading to somewhat erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.05-0.2 dm, tomentose. Leaves cauline, 1 per node or fasciculate; petiole 0.1-0.2 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade linear-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 0.5-1.7(-2) × 0.1-0.2(-0.3) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, slightly less so and often reddish or tannish adaxially, margins revolute. Inflorescences umbellate to cymose, compact, rarely reduced to single involucre, 0.5-1 × 0.5-1.5 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, linear, 0.7-1.3 mm. Peduncles erect, 0.1-0.3(-0.4) cm, tomentose to floccose. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate, 2-4 × 1.5-3 mm, tomentose to floccose or glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.7 mm. Flowers 2.5-4(-4.5) mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly obovate to nearly orbiculate, (2-)2.5-3 mm wide, those of inner whorl oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1-1.5 mm wide; stamens long-exserted, 3-5 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally or glabrous. Achenes light brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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