Herbs, matted, occasionally scapose, 0.2-1 × 0.8-1.5(-2) dm, glandular-puberulent and slightly pilose, greenish. Stems matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems rarely scapelike, erect to prostrate, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.15-0.6(-0.8) dm, thinly to densely glandular-puberulent and slightly pilose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.2-0.6(-1) cm, tomentose; blade broadly elliptic, 0.2-0.8(-1) × 0.2-0.4(-0.6) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, less so and olive green adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose-umbellate or cymose, 0.5-3 × 1-2.5 cm, rarely capitate, 1-1.3 cm; branches dichotomous, occasionally absent, pilose and glandular; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1-1.2 mm. Peduncles erect to spreading, slender, 0.05-0.5(-1) cm, glandular or nearly glabrous, rarely absent. Involucres 1 per node, rarely 2-4, turbinate-campanulate, (2.5-)3.5-4 × 3.5-4 mm, rigid, glandular-puberulent or nearly glabrous; teeth 7-9, erect or slightly spreading, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers 2.5-3.5(-4) mm; perianth whitish to reddish, finely glandular-hairy abaxially; tepals connate proximally, slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl obovate and obtuse, 1.5-2.3 mm wide, apex truncate or emarginate, those of inner whorl cuneate or spatulate, 0.7-1.3 mm wide, apex rounded; stamens exserted, 3-5.5 mm; filaments sparsely pubescent proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, apex sparsely glandular.
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