Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.5-1(-1.3) × 1-2 dm, tomentose, grayish. Stems spreading, with persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, weakly erect to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.1-0.9(-1.2) dm, tomentose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.5-1 cm; blade oblanceolate to spatulate or ovate, 0.5-1.5(-1.8) × (0.2-)0.3-1 cm, densely grayish-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.8-1.2 cm; branches absent; bracts 3-5, scalelike, triangular, 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 2-5 per cluster, cam-panulate, 2-3(-3.5) × 2-3.5(-4) mm, membranous, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 2-3 mm; perianth cream to pink or rose, glabrous or sparsely pilose, pustulose; tepals connate proximal 1/ 1/ 3, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 2-2.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, (2-)2.5-3 mm, glabrous except for minutely papillate beak.
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