Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.5-1.2 × 0.7-4 dm, tomentose or floccose, grayish. Stems spread-ing, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.2-)0.4-1 dm, tomentose or floccose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.3-1.5 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade oblanceolate to elliptic or, rarely, ovate, 0.4-2(-2.5) × 0.2-1 cm, densely greenish-or grayish-white-tomentose on both surfaces or densely greenish-white tomentose abaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.7-1.5 cm; branches absent; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1.5-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 4-7(-9) per cluster, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 2-3.5 × 2-3.5 mm, weakly rigid, floccose at least on teeth; teeth 5-8, erect. Flowers 2-3.5 mm; perianth yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 4-3, monomorphic, lanceolate or oblong; stamens exserted, 2-4 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-3.5 mm, glabrous or sometimes with minute bristles on beak.
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