Subshrubs, spreading, not scapose, 2-5 × 2.5-5(-6) dm, white-to brownish-tomentose, reddish-to brownish-white. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/4 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, somewhat stout, solid, not fistulose, 1-2(-2.5) dm, floccose. Leaves cauline on proximal 1-7(-9) cm of stem, 1 per node; petiole 1.5-4(-5) cm, tomentose; blade cordate, (1.5-)2-3.5 × 1-2(-2.5) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose and greenish or brownish white adaxially, margins plane or crenulate. Inflorescences cymose, usually open, 3-15 × 5-20 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose to floccose; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1-4 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 1.5-2(-2.5) × 1-1.5(-1.8) mm; teeth 5-6, erect, 0.3-0.5 mm. Flowers 2-3 mm; perianth brownish white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, dimorphic, those of outer whorl obovate, 1.8-2 mm wide, those of inner whorl lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1-1.2 mm wide; stamens slightly exserted, 2.5-4 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous.
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