Herbs, compact or spreading, matted, 0.3-2 × 0.5-3 dm, floccose or glabrous. Stems: caudex absent or spreading; aerial flowering stems prostrate to weakly erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, usually arising directly from a taproot, 0.3-1.5(-1.8) dm, villous to floccose or glabrous. Leaves basal, mostly in loose rosettes; petiole 1-4 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade ovate to round, 1-2.5(-4) × 0.8-2 cm, grayish-to tannish-lanate or tomentose abaxially, glabrous and green adaxially, or glabrous on both surfaces, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences capitate or umbellate, 1-3(-5) × 1-4 cm; branches floccose or glabrous; bracts 2, leaflike, (0.4-)1-2 × 0.1-0.2(-0.4) cm, sometimes absent immediately below involucre. Involucres 1 per node (occasionally appearing clustered), campanulate, 4-6 × (3-)4-8 mm, pilose or glabrous; teeth 4-5, erect, 0.6-1 mm. Flowers 4-6 mm, including 0.1-0.2 mm stipelike base; perianth white to rose, pilose to villous with intermixed glandular hairs abaxially; tepals monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 4-8 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 4-5 mm, glabrous except for pilose beak.
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