Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.5-1 × 0.5-2 dm, glandular-hairy, greenish. Stems matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.2-)0.3-1(-1.2) dm, glandular-hairy. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole (0.5-)0.8-1.7(-2) cm, thinly tomentose, glandular; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, (0.3-)1-1.5(-2) × (0.2-)0.3-0.6 cm, densely white-tomentose and glandular abaxially, less so and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 1-2 cm; branches absent; bracts 3-5, lanceolate, scalelike, 1.5-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 5-7 per cluster, turbinate to campanulate, 2-4 × 2-3 mm, membranous, sparsely glandular to glandular-puberulent or pubescent; teeth 5, erect to spreading, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers 2-3 mm; perianth white to rose, glandular; tepals connate proximal 4, monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 2-3.5(-4) mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2-2.3(-2.5) mm, glabrous.
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