Herbs, erect, 1-5 dm, glabrous, greenish to grayish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5-1.5(-2) dm, glabrous. Leaves basal; petiole 1-5 cm, floccose; blade round to reniform, (0.3-)1-2(-4) × (0.3-)1-2(-4) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose to glabrate and mostly greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, occasionally distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, 5-40 × 5-35 cm; branches straight or nearly so, infrequently inwardly curved distally, glabrous; bracts 1-3 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres appressed to branches, cylindric-turbinate, 3-4 × 2-2.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.3 mm. Flowers 1.5-2 mm; perianth white to pink or red, rarely yellow, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong-obovate; stamens included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 2 mm. 2n = 40.
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A herb. It grows 10-50 cm tall. The leaves are at the base. The leaves are round to kidney shaped and 1-2 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They have a white coating. The flowering stems are 5-15 cm long. The dry fruit is 3 sided and 2 mm across.
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