Herbs, spreading, not scapose, 0.5-0.8(-1) × 0.8-3.5 dm, thinly floccose or glabrous, greenish. Stems spreading, occasionally with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/3 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems slightly spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.2-0.6 dm, thinly floccose or glabrous, tomentose among leaves. Leaves sheathing up stem 1-4 cm, 1 per node; petiole 0.1-0.2 cm, glabrous or sparsely floccose; blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, (0.5-)1-2(-2.5) × 0.15-0.2(-0.25) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose and greenish adaxially, margins revolute. Inflorescences cymose, 1-3 × 0.8-2 cm; branches dichotomous, thinly floccose or glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, (0.5-)1-2 mm. Peduncles erect, slender, 0.2-1 cm, floccose or glabrous. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 1.5-2(-2.5) × 1-2 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.3-0.5 mm. Flowers 1.5-2.5 mm; perianth yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 2, monomorphic to slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl slightly broader than those of inner whorl, oblong to obovate; stamens exserted, 1.5-2 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous.
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