Herbs, narrowly erect, (0.5-)1-6 dm, tomentose, whitish to grayish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, (0.3-)1-3 dm, tomentose. Leaves cauline; petiole 0.3-1.5 cm; blade narrowly oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, (0.7-)1-3 × 0.5-1.5 cm, densely white-tomentose and whitish to grayish on both surfaces. Inflorescences narrowly cymose, distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, (5-)10-50 × 10-25 cm; branches tomentose; bracts 1.5-3 × 1-2.5 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres appressed to branches, turbinate, 1.5-2.5 × 1-2 mm, tomentose, rarely glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-1 mm. Flowers (1-)1.5-2 mm; perianth white, becoming pink or red, glabrous; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly fan-shaped, those of inner whorl oblanceolate; stamens included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes dark brown, 3-gonous, 1-1.3 mm. 2n = 26.
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