Herbs, scapose, matted, 0.4-1.5 × 1-4 dm, glabrous or sparsely floccose to tomentose, grayish or reddish. Stems matted, occasion-ally with persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike,erect or nearly so, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.5-)1.5-4.5(-5) dm, glabrous or sparsely floccose to tomentose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts, sometimes 1 per node and sheathing up stem 1-2 cm; petiole 0.05-1 cm, tomentose; blade oblanceolate, elliptic, or oblong, 0.2-1(-1.2) × 0.05-0.4 cm, grayish-, brownish-, white-, or reddish-white-tomentose, usually on both surfaces, margins plane or revolute. Inflorescences capitate, 0.4-1 cm; branches absent; bracts 4-7, scalelike, triangular, 0.5-2.5(-3) mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 3-7 per cluster, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 1.5-4 × 1-3.5 mm, rigid, glabrous or tomentose; teeth 5, erect to spreading, 0.4-1.5 mm. Flowers 1.5-4 mm, glabrous; perianth white to pink or rose; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, monomorphic, oblanceolate to elliptic or obovate to nearly oval; stamens exserted, 1.5-4 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pubescent proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 1.8-4 mm, glabrous.
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