Herbs, compact or sprawling, matted, 0.3-3 × 1-2.5 dm, tomentose to floccose. Stems: caudex absent or nearly so; aerial flowering stems prostrate to decumbent or weakly erect, slender or stout, solid, not fistulose, usually arising directly from a taproot, 0.5-1.5(-2) dm, tomentose to floccose. Leaves basal, in well-defined rosettes; petiole (0.8-)1-3.5(-5) cm, tomentose to floccose; blade ovate to obovate or round-oval, 1-4(-5) × 1-4(-5) cm, densely white-to grayish-or reddish-tomentose abaxially, less so to floccose or glabrous and greenish adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences subcapitate to umbellate or infrequently 2-umbellate, 1-4 × 1-4 cm; branches tomentose to floccose; bracts 3-5 at proximal node, leaflike, 0.6-1.5(-2.5) × 0.1-0.5(-0.8) cm, sometimes absent immediately below involucre. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 5-10(-12) × 5-10(-12) mm, thinly tomentose to lanate; teeth 6-10, usually lobelike, mostly reflexed, 2-6 mm. Flowers 5-7 mm, including 0.1-0.4 mm stipelike base; perianth white to rose, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong-obovate; stamens exserted, 5-7 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 4.5-6 mm, glabrous. 2n = 40.
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