Herbs, spreading, 1-2(-3) dm, puberulent to short-pilose, greenish to reddish. Stems: aerial flowering stems decumbent to spreading, 0.3-0.5 dm, puberu-lent to short-pilose. Leaves basal and cauline; basal: petiole 1-4(-5) cm, puberulent to short-pilose, blade elliptic-oblong to orbiculate, 1-2(-2.5) × 1-2(-2.5) cm, puberulent to short-pilose and green on both surfaces; cauline: petiole (0-)0.1-2 cm, puberulent to short-pilose, absent distally, blades opposite, oblanceolate to oblong or elliptic, 0.3-1(-1.5) × 0.2-0.8(-1.2) cm, similar to basal blade. Inflorescences cymose, distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, diffuse, 5-25 × 10-45 cm; branches puberulent; bracts 1-3(-5) × 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres somewhat appressed to branches, campanulate, 1-2 × 1-2 mm, pilose; teeth 5, lobelike, spreading to somewhat reflexed, 0.7-1.5 mm. Flowers (1-)1.5-2 mm; perianth yellow, rarely pale yellow, hispidulous and glandular with yellowish-white hairs; tepals monomorphic, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate; stamens included, 0.7-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3-gonous, 1.5-2 mm.
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