Herbs, erect to spreading, 2-6 dm, floccose to tomentose, rarely glabrous, grayish to reddish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5-2 dm, floccose to tomentose, rarely glabrous. Leaves basal and occasionally cauline; basal: petiole (0.5-)1-3 cm, usually tomentose, blade broadly obovate to roundish, (0.3-)1-2 × (0.3-)1-2 cm, white-tomentose abaxially, floccose to glabrate or glabrous and greenish adaxially; cauline sessile, blade broadly obovate to roundish, rarely elliptic, 0.5-1.5(-3) × 0.5-1(-2) cm, similar to basal blade. Inflorescences cymose, not distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, mostly open, 10-50 × 10-50 cm; branches floccose to glabrate, rarely glabrous; bracts 0.5-2.5 × 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres appressed to branches, cylindric, (3.8-)4-4.5 × 2-3 mm, glabrate; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.5 mm. Flowers (1.8-)2-2.5 mm; perianth white to rose, densely pubescent; tepals monomorphic, oblong-obovate; stamens included, 1.5-2 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 1.5-2 mm, glabrous; beak scabrous. 2n = 24.
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