Herbs, spreading, annual, 0.5-1.5 dm, glandular, greenish or reddish. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems mostly erect, solid, not fistulose, 0.2-0.5 dm, glandular. Leaves basal and cauline; basal: petiole 0.5-2 cm, glabrous, slightly winged, ciliate, blade obovate to spatulate, 1-2.5 × 0.4-0.8 cm, glabrous, margins ciliate; cauline sessile, blade lanceolate, 0.1-0.5 × 0.1-0.3 cm, similar to basal blade. Inflorescences cymose, usually diffuse, 5-13 × 5-25 cm; branches glandular; bracts 3, scalelike, 0.5-1.5 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent or erect, straight, filiform, 0.1-0.5 cm, glandular. Involucres turbinate, 0.8-1 × 0.7-0.9 mm, sparsely hispid; teeth 4, erect or nearly so, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 2, 0.8-1.1 mm; perianth pink to reddish, hirsutulous with stiff, white, hooked hairs; tepals monomorphic, oblong; stamens included, 0.5-0.8 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes brown, lenticular, 1-1.3 mm, glabrous; beak exserted beyond tepals.
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