Herbs, erect, not scapose, (2-)3-6 × 1.5-4 dm, glabrous, grayish. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.5-2.5 dm, glabrous, tomentose among leaves. Leaves basal, 1 per node; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm, tomentose; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1-3(-5) × 0.2-1(-1.3) cm, densely white-or silvery-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, open, divided 3-10 times, 10-40 × 10-30 cm; branches dichotomous, glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1-2 mm. Peduncles erect, slender, 0.5-6 cm. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 1.5-2.5 × (1.5-)2-3 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 2.5-3 mm; perianth yellow, densely white-pubescent; tepals connate proximal 3, monomorphic, lanceolate; stamens exserted, 2.5-3.5 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 40.
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