Shrubs or subshrubs, compact to spreading, 2-5(-8) × 2-20(-30) dm, tomentose to canescent and grayish. Aerial flowering stems thinly tomentose to canescent, rarely glabrous. Leaf blade usually oblanceolate, 0.6-1.8 × (0.1-)0.2-0.6 cm, canescent on both surfaces or densely grayish-tomentose abaxially and canescent adaxially, margins plane or infrequently revolute. Inflorescences capitate to cymose-umbellate, rarely cymose; branches tomentose to canescent, rarely glabrous. Involucres turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 2.5-3.5 × 2-3 mm, canescent. Perianths pubescent. 2n = 40.