Herbs, spreading to erect, (0.5-)1-3 dm, mostly floccose to to-mentose, grayish to tawy. Stems: aerial flowering stems mostly erect, 0.3-0.8 dm, floccose to tomentose. Leaves basal; petiole 1-4 cm, floccose; blade suborbiculate to cordate, 0.5-1.5(-1.8) × 0.5-2 cm, densely white-to grayish-tomentose abaxially, less so to glabrate and often greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, 5-2.5 × 10-30 cm; branches not inwardly curved distally, floccose to tomentose; bracts 0.5-3 × 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres appressed to branches, campanulate, 1.5-2 × 1.5-2 mm, floccose to tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.3 mm. Flowers 1.5-2 mm; perianth white to pink or pale yellowish, becoming pink to red, glabrous; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl narrowly fan-shaped, those of inner whorl oblanceolate; stamens included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 1.5-1.8 mm. 2n = 40.
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