Plants pulvinate and cespitose, (0.3-)0.5-1.2(-1.5) × 1-2.5 dm. Aerial flowering stems erect, scapelike, 0.3-1.5 dm, tomentose. Leaves: blade narrowly oblance-olate to oblanceolate, (0.8-)1-4(-4.5) × (0.3-)0.4-0.8 cm, densely tomentose abaxially, tomentose to floccose and grayish to greenish adaxially, margins plane (rarely crenulate in Wyoming). Inflorescences capitate, 1-2 cm; branches absent. Involucres 3-6 per cluster, turbinate, 2.5-4 × 2-3 mm, floccose to tomentose. Flowers 2-3 mm; perianth yellow or, rarely, ochrocephalous, glabrous.
Home