Herbs, spreading, loosely ces-pitose, probably polygamodio-ecious, 0.5-1 × 1-5 dm, tomen-tose to sericeous. Stems: caudex spreading; aerial flowering stems weakly erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, nonflowering aerial branches, (0.4-)0.5-0.8 dm, tomentose to sericeous, with a whorl of 2-4, leaflike bracts ca. midlength, these similar to leaf blades, 0.3-0.8 × 0.1-0.25 cm. Leaves in tight basal rosettes; petiole 0.05-0.2 cm, silky-tomentose; blade oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 0.4-1 × 0.1-0.3(-0.4) cm, silky-tomentose and silvery abaxially, less so and greenish adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.5-1.5 cm wide; branches absent; bracts absent immediately below involucre. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, (4-)5-6 × 2.5-4 mm; teeth 6-8, erect, 0.5-1 mm. Flowers 5-7 mm, including 0.5-0.8(-1) mm stipelike base; perianth whitish to pinkish or rose-red, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 4-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 4-5 mm, glabrous except for sparsely pubescent beak.
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