Herbs, erect to spreading or somewhat decumbent, (0.7-)1.5-5(-7) dm, lanate to tomentose or floccose, rarely glabrous, greenish to whitish or grayish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5-2 dm, lanate to tomentose or floccose, rarely glabrous. Leaves basal and cauline; basal: petiole 1-4 cm, floccose, not winged, blade oblanceolate to oblong, (0.8-)1-4(-6) × 0.5-2 cm, tomentose abaxially, less so to floccose and greenish to grayish adaxially; cauline: petiole 0.3-2 cm, floccose, blade oblanceolate, 0.5-3 × 0.3-1.5 cm, similar to basal blade. Inflorescences cymose, occasionally distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open to somewhat diffuse, 0.5-4 × 0.5-3 cm; branches lanate to tomentose or floccose, rarely glabrous, straight or nearly so, not inwardly curved distally; bracts 0.5-3 × 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres somewhat appressed to branches, turbinate, (1.8-)2-3 × 1.5-2 mm, floccose or glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.3-0.6 mm. Flowers 1.5-3 mm; perianth white to pink or yellow, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, lanceolate to oblong; stamens mostly included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 1-2 mm. 2n = 22.
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