Herbs, erect, 1.5-3 × 1-4 dm, to-mentose, brownish. Stems slightly spreading to erect, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.5-1.5 dm, tomentose. Leaves basal, 1 per node; petiole 1-5 cm, tomentose; blade elliptic to ovate or obovate, 1.5-4 × 1-2.5 cm, white-tomentose abaxially, less so and often greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose with involucres racemosely disposed at tips, (10-)12-20 × 1-5 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, narrowly triangular, and 1-4 mm, or leaflike, elliptic to oval, and 5-15 × 5-15 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 3-5 × 2-4 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 3.5-5 mm; perianth white to whitish brown, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, monomorphic, oblanceolate; stamens exserted, 3-7 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous.
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