Herbs, erect, not scapose, 2-3.5 × 2-3(-4) dm, glabrous, grayish green. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 8 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-2 dm, glabrous, tomentose among leaves. Leaves basal, 1 per node; petiole 0.5-1 cm, glabrous; blade lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 × 0.2-0.3 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, mostly glabrous and green adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences narrowly cymose, 15-25 × 5-15 cm; branches dichotomous, upper secondaries suppressed, glabrous; bracts 3, linear to triangular, scalelike, 1-4(-7) mm. Peduncles erect, 0.5-1.5 cm at proximal nodes, 0.1-0.5 cm at distal nodes. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 2-2.5 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.5 mm. Flowers 2-2.5 mm; perianth ochroleucous to pale yellow or, rarely, yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, monomorphic, lanceolate; stamens exserted, 1.5-2 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous.
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