Shrubs, spreading to rounded, sparsely to densely branched, 1-10 × 2-10(-12) dm. Leaf blades linear to linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic or oblong, 0.5-1.2(-1.5) × 0.1-0.6 cm, tomentose or glabrous abaxially. Inflorescences (1-)3-20 × (1-)3-25 cm; branches diffuse with racemosely arranged involucres at tips, slender to stout, round, smooth, glabrous, scabrellous, or infrequently papillate-scabrous, infrequently somewhat spinose. Involucres narrowly turbinate to campanulate, 0.9-1.8 × 0.7-1.3 mm. Flowers 1.5-4 mm; perianth white to yellowish white or reddish.