Herbs, erect, 1-4 dm; glabrous, grayish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5-1 dm, glabrous. Leaves basal; petiole 0.3-3 cm, thinly tomentose; blade oblong or rounded to subcordate, 0.3-1.5 × 0.3-1.5 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, mostly tomentose and grayish or greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, occasionally distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open to somewhat diffuse, 5-3.5 × 5-30 cm; branches glabrous; bracts 0.5-2 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres somewhat appressed to branches, turbinate, 1-1.5 × 0.6-0.8 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.3 mm. Flowers 1-1.5 mm; perianth white to rose, glabrous; tepals slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl oblong-obovate, those of inner whorl oblong; stamens included, 1 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 1-1.5 mm.
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