Herbs, matted, usually not sca-pose, 0.3-1 × 0.5-3(-5) dm, gla-brous, greenish. Stems spreading, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems rarely scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.2-0.9 dm, glabrous, tomentose among leaves. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.2-0.5 cm, tomentose; blade narrowly oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5-1(-1.2) × 0.15-0.25(-0.3) cm, densely white-or grayish-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. Inflorescences umbellate-cymose to cymose, rarely capitate, 3-5 × 3-5 cm; branches dichotomous, glabrous, rarely absent; bracts 3, triangular, scalelike, 0.5-1 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, rarely 2-5, turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 2-3 × 2-3 mm, rigid, glabrous; teeth 6-8, erect, 0.8-1.4 mm. Flowers 2-2.5(-3) mm; perianth yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximally, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 2-3 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous.
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