Shrubs, round, 6-15 × 10-20(-25) dm, tomentulose, grayish. Stems spreading, occasionally with persistent leaf bases, up to 3/ 4 or more height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect to spreading, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-4 dm, tomentulose. Leaves cauline, 1 per node; petiole 0.1-0.5(-1) cm, tomentulose; blade ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-2.5(-3) cm, white-tomentulose abaxially, less so and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, congested, 1-2.5 × 1-2.5 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentulose; bracts usually 3, scalelike, triangular, and 1-3 mm, or leaflike, ovate, and 7-20 × 5-18 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 3-10 per cluster, narrowly turbinate, 3-5 × 2-3 mm, tomentulose; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.5 mm. Flowers 2.5-3 mm; perianth white to pinkish, densely white-villous; tepals connate proximally, monomorphic, spatulate to narrowly obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5-3.5 mm; filaments subglabrous. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 80.
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