Shrubs, erect or spreading, not scapose, 6-15(-18) × 10-20(-35) dm, white-tomentose to thinly floccose, greenish or grayish. Stems mostly spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 2 height or more of plant; caudex stems absent or spreading in moving sand; aerial flowering stems spreading, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1.5-4 dm, white-tomentose to thinly floccose, occasionally glabrate and light green. Leaves cauline, 1 per node, rarely fasciculate, quickly deciduous; petiole (0.3-)0.5-2 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade oblong-ovate to round-oblong or orbiculate, (0.3-)0.5-1.5(-3.5) × (0.5-)0.7-1.7(-2) cm, white-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane, sometimes crisped. Inflorescences cymose, open, 15-90 × 20-100 cm; branches dichotomous, white-tomentose to thinly floccose, becoming floccose or glabrate and green; bracts 3, triangular, 0.5-1.5 mm. Peduncles absent or erect, slender, 0.1-0.5 cm, floccose to glabrate. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate, 1.5-2.5(-3) × 1.3-1.6(-2) mm, thinly tomentose; teeth 4, erect, 0.3-0.5 mm. Flowers (2.5-)3-4(-4.5) mm; perianth greenish yellow to yellow, silky-villous abaxially; tepals connate proximally, monomorphic, oblong to oblong-obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-4(-4.5) mm, glabrous except for scabrellous beak.
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