Herbs, spreading, not scapose, 2-3.5(-4.5) × 1-2.5 dm, glabrous, grayish. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 4 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.8-2 dm, glabrous. Leaves basal, 1 per node; petiole 1-2.5(-3) cm, tomentose; blade elliptic to spatulate or broadly elliptic, 0.6-1.5(-2) × 0.5-1(-1.5) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, 5-25(-30) × 5-15 cm; branches dichotomous, glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 0.8-2 mm. Peduncles erect, slender, (0.5-)1-3(-5) cm, glabrous. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 2-3 × 1.8-2(-2.2) mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 1.5-2.5 mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 5, monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 2-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous.
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