Herbs, erect, (1.5-)2.5-4.5(-5) × 1-2 dm, glabrous. Stems: caudex absent or nearly so; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, nonflowering aerial branches, 1-4 dm, essentially glabrous. Leaves basal, occasionally in rosettes; petiole 1-4(-7) cm, pilose; blade elliptic-obovate to round-ovate, 1-3(-3.5) × 0.8-2.5 cm, pilose, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences capitate, 2-3.5(-4) cm wide; branches absent; bracts 5-8, essentially scalelike, 1-8 × 1-3 mm. Involucres 2-5 or more per cluster, campanulate, 6-8 × 6-8 mm, pilose; teeth 5-8, erect to slightly spreading, 1-2 mm. Flowers 3-6 mm, including 0.1-0.2 mm stipelike base; perianth cream to pale yellow, sparsely pubescent abaxially; tepals monomorphic, obovate to spatulate; stamens exserted, 3-7 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3-5 mm, glabrous.
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