Subshrubs, spreading, not scapose, 0.5-1(-1.2) × 0.8-3(-4) dm, floccose or glabrous, grayish. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 3 height of plant; caudex stems absent or compact; aerial flowering stems spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.05-0.1 dm, thinly floccose or glabrous. Leaves cauline, 1 per node; petiole 0.05-0.1 cm, floccose; blade oblanceolate, 0.5-1.2(-1.5) × 0.08-0.2(-0.3) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, subglabrous or glabrous and green adaxially, margins tightly revolute. Inflorescences cymose, compact, 0.1-2 × 1-3 cm; branches dichotomous, thinly floccose or glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 0.5-1 mm. Peduncles absent or erect, 0.1-0.5 cm, floccose or glabrous. Involucres 1 per node, narrowly turbinate, (2-)2.5-3.5 × 1-1.5 mm, floccose or glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.3-0.4 mm. Flowers (2.5-)3-3.5 mm; perianth cream, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 2, essentially monomorphic, oblong; stamens slightly exserted, 2.5-4 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 40.
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