Herbs, erect to spreading, 1-3 dm, glabrous, greenish to yellowish green. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.2-1 dm, glabrous. Leaves basal; petiole 1-4 cm, tomentose; blade oblong to rounded, (0.4-)0.6-2 × (0.4-)0.6-2 cm, white-tomentose and grayish on both surfaces, or slightly less so adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, diffuse, spreading, 5-25 × 5-20 cm; branches glabrous; bracts 0.5-1.5 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres terminal at tips of slender branchlets at least proximally, not appressed to branches, turbinate, 1.7-2 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.9 mm. Flowers 0.7-1 mm; perianth yellow, glabrous, infrequently glandular proximally; tepals monomorphic, narrowly oblong to elliptic; stamens included to slightly exserted, 0.8-1.2 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes dark brown to nearly black, lenticular, 1-1.2 mm.
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