Herbs, erect, 1-4 dm, glabrous, green to reddish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.3-1 dm, glabrous. Leaves basal; petiole 1-4(-5) cm, tomentose; blade suborbiculate to reniform, (0.3-)0.5-1.5 × 0.5-1.5(-1.8) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, glabrous and bright green adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, infrequently distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, 5-35 × 5-30 cm; branches glabrous; bracts 1-2 × 0.5-1 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres terminal at tips of slender branchlets proximally, not appressed to branches, turbinate, 2-2.5 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 2-2.5(-3) mm; perianth pink at early anthesis, becoming white to rose or yellow, minutely puberulent; tepals monomorphic, narrowly elliptic; stamens included, 1.7-2 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes light brown, 3-gonous, 1.8-2 mm. 2n = 34.
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