Herbs, cespitose or spreading, scapose, (0.5-)1.5-3 × (0.5-)2-4(-5) dm, tomentose, reddish, greenish, or grayish. Stems spreading, occasionally with persistent leaf bases, up to 4 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems slightly spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.06-)1-2.5 dm, tomentose. Leaves sheathing up stem 1-4 cm, 1 per node; petiole (0.5-)1-2.5(-3) cm, lanate; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, (0.5-)1-5(-7) × (0.2-)0.3-1 cm, densely lanate abaxially, less so to tomentose adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 1 cm; branches absent; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1.5-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 3-5 per cluster, turbinate, (2-)3.5-4.5 × (1.5-)2.5-3 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-1 mm. Flowers (2-)2.5-3.5(-4) mm; perianth ochroleucous or yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, (2.5-)3-5 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes brown, (2.5-)3-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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