Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.1-0.5 × 0.5-3 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, 0.03-0.3 dm, glandular-hairy. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole (0.1-)0.2-0.6(-1) cm, floccose and glandular; blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.2-0.5(-1) × (0.1-)0.2-0.4 cm, glandular and densely white-tomentose abaxially, less so to floccose and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.6-0.9(-1) cm; branches absent; bracts 4-6, scalelike, narrowly lanceolate, 0.8-1.4(-1.8) mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 2-4 per cluster, campanulate, (1.5-)2-3 × 2-3 mm, membranous, sparsely glandular-puberulent; teeth 5, erect to spreading, 1-1.3 mm. Flowers 2.5-3(-3.5) mm; perianth white to rose, sparsely glandular; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, monomorphic, spatulate to obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5-3(-3.5) mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous except for slightly roughened beak.
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