Herbs, spreading, annual, 0.8-2.5 dm, glandular, greenish to reddish. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, solid, not fistulose, 0.3-1 dm, glandular. Leaves basal; petiole 1-3 cm, floccose; leaf blade rounded, 1-2.5 × 1-2.5 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose or glabrous and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, open to somewhat diffuse, 5-20 × 5-20 cm; branches glandular; bracts 3, scalelike, 1-2 × 0.5-1.5 mm. Peduncles absent or deflexed, straight, slender, (0.1-)0.5-1 cm, glandular. Involucres turbinate-campanulate, 1.8-2 × 1-1.5 mm, glandular; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 2-2.5 mm; perianth white with red midribs, becoming red, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong-ovate; stamens exserted, 2-2.5 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous.
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