Herbs, spreading, matted, synoecious, 0.2-1 × 1-3(-5) dm, tomentose. Stems: caudex spreading; aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, nonflowering aerial branches, 0.2-0.6(-1) dm, tomentose. Leaves in compact basal rosettes; petiole 0.5-1 cm; blade broadly ovate, 0.4-0.8(-1) × 0.5-1 cm, densely white-to brownish-tomentose abaxially, thinly floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins plane to slightly revolute. Inflorescences subcapitate, 0.5-1.5 × 1-2 cm; branches tomentose; bracts 3-6, leaflike, lanceolate, 0.3-0.6 × 0.1-0.3 mm. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 3-4 × 2-3 mm, villous; teeth 6-8, erect, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 3.5-5.5 mm, including 0.5-0.8 mm stipelike base; perianth white to ochroleucous, becoming pinkish rose or deep red, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 4-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 4.5-5 mm, glabrous.
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