Herbs, spreading, sometimes scapose, 1-2.5 × (0.5-)1-2 dm, tomentose to floccose, grayish. Stems spreading, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 4 height of plant; caudex stems matted, floccose or glabrous; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-2.5 dm, tomentose to floccose. Leaves strictly basal, 1 per node; petiole 1-3(-3.5) cm, lanate; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1.5-4(-5) × 0.4-1.2(-1.6) cm, densely white-tomentose adaxially, less so and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate or umbellate-cymose, 0.1-1.5 cm wide, tomentose to floccose; branches dichotomous, sometimes absent, tomentose to floccose; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, and 2-5 mm, or leaflike, lanceolate, and 1-3 × 0.2-0.7 cm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 4-8 per cluster, turbinate, 3.5-5 × 3-4 mm, floccose or glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers (2.5-)3-3.5 mm; perianth ochroleucous, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, monomorphic, oblanceolate to oblong; stamens exserted, 3-3.5 mm; filaments pilose basally. Achenes light brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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