Herbs, spreading, not scapose, 1-3.5 × 1-4 dm, tomentose, greenish. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 4 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems slightly erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-2(-2.5) dm, tomentose. Leaves sheathing up stem 0.5-2(-3) cm, 1 per node; petiole (1-)2-3 cm, tomentose; blade elliptic, 2-2.5(-3) × (0.8-)1-1.3 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, less so and greenish-tomentose adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose-umbellate, 3-10(-15) × 3-5(-8) cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, and 1-2 mm, or leaflike, lanceolate, and 5-10(-12) × (1.5-)2-4(-5) mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, rarely 2 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, 2.5-4 × 2-3 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 2-2.5(-3) mm; perianth bright yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/4-3, monomorphic, oblong to obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-3 mm, glabrous.
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