Shrubs, matted to spreading or rounded, 3-10 × 5-20(-25) dm, thinly tomentose or glabrous, greenish. Stems spreading, sometimes matted, often with persistent leaf bases, up to 2 or more height of plant; caudex stems absent or matted; aerial flowering stems prostrate, spreading, or erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.2-1 dm, thinly tomentose or glabrous. Leaves cauline, fasciculate, infrequently 1 per node; petiole 0.1-0.7 cm, floccose; blade lanceolate to round, 0.5-3 × 0.3-0.8(-1.2) cm, lanate to tomentose abaxially, mostly glabrous and olive green to green adaxially. Inflorescences capitate to cymose, 20-30 × 2-10 cm; branches dichotomous, thinly tomentose or glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, and 1-2 mm, or leaflike, usually elliptic, and 5-20 × 2-10 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 2-7 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, (2.5-)3-4 × 2-3.5 mm, floccose to glabrate; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.9 mm. Flowers 2.5-3 mm; perianth white to pinkish or greenish yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximally, monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5-3.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous. 2n = 40.
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