Subshrubs, spreading, not scapose, 1-2.5 × 3-8 dm, thinly floccose or glabrous, greenish to grayish. Stems spreading, with-out persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 3 height of plant; caudex stems compact; aerial flowering stems spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.06-0.2(-2.5) dm, thinly floccose or glabrous. Leaves cauline, 1 per node or fasciculate; petiole 0.05-0.1 cm, tomentose to floccose, rarely glabrous; blade oblanceolate, 1-1.5(-2) × 0.08-0.2 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, thinly tomentose and grayish or rarely glabrous and green adaxially, margins tightly revolute. Inflorescences umbellate to cymose, compact, 0.5-2 × 1-2 cm; branches dichotomous, thinly floccose or glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1.5-2.5(-3) mm. Peduncles erect, 0.15-0.8 cm, glabrous. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate, (3-)3.5-4.5(-5) × 2.5-4.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.6-0.9(-1.1) mm. Flowers (2.5-)3-3.5 mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 4-3, dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly obovate to nearly fan-shaped, 2-2.5 mm wide, those of inner whorl slightly shorter and oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.9-1.5 mm wide; stamens long-exserted, 3-6 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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