Herbs, matted, scapose, (0.1-)0.3-0.6 × 0.5-5 dm, glabrous, grayish. Stems spreading, often with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted, glabrous; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.3-1(-1.2) dm, glabrous. Leaves basal, 1 per node but congested; petiole (0.2-)0.5-3 cm, tomentose to floccose or glabrous; blade oblanceolate to lanceolate or narrowly spatulate, 1-4(-5) × 0.3-0.6(-0.9) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, thinly floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins plane or thickened. Inflorescences capitate, 0.7-1.5 cm wide; branches absent; bracts 3, semileaflike, usually triangular, 1.5-3(-4) mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 3-4 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, 2-3.5 × 1.5-2.5(-3) mm, glabrous except for cottony tomentum on teeth, rarely thinly floccose; teeth 5, erect, 0.3-0.7(-1) mm. Flowers 2.5-3.5(-4) mm; perianth white to rose, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 4, monomorphic, oblong to ovate; stamens exserted, 3.5-4 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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