Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.05-1.5(-2) × (0.1-)1-3 dm, floccose to tomentose or glabrous, sometimes glandular, greenish or grayish. Stems mat-ted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, weakly erect to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.02-1.5(-1.8) dm, floccose to tomentose or glabrous, occasionally also or only sparsely to densely glandular. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.2-3(-3.5) cm, tomentose, infrequently glandular; blade oblanceolate to spatulate or elliptic to obovate or ovate, (0.5-)1-2(-3) × 0.2-1(-1.5) cm, densely white-or grayish-tomentose on both surfaces, sometimes less and greenish white adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.7-1.5 cm; branches absent; bracts 3, narrowly triangular to triangular, scalelike, 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres (3-)5-8 per cluster, turbinate to campanulate, (1.5-)2-5(-5.5) × 2-4(-4.5) mm, rigid or membranous, tomentose to floccose, occasionally glabrous except for floccose teeth, rarely sparsely pilose and glandular; teeth 5-7, erect to spreading or reflexed, 0.5-1.5 mm. Flowers 1.5-3.5(-4) mm, glabrous or occasionally minutely glandular, pustulose in some; perianth yellow to pale yellow or, rarely, cream; tepals connate proximal 4-3, monomorphic, oblong to oblong-obovate; stamens exserted, 1.5-4 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2-4 mm, glabrous or sometimes with minute bristles on beak. 2n = 40.
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