Herbs, erect, matted, 0.5-3 × 1-2 dm, tomentose to floccose. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, stout, solid, not fistulose, usually arising directly from a taproot, 0.5-1.2(-1.6) dm, tomentose to floccose. Leaves basal, in well-defined rosettes; petiole 1-4(-5.5) cm, tomentose to floccose; blade ovate to obovate, 2.5-4(-5) × 1.6-2.5(-3.5) cm, densely white-to grayish-or reddish-tomentose abaxially, less so to floccose or glabrous and greenish adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences 2-umbellate, 5-10 × 5-10 cm; branches tomentose to floccose; bracts 3-5 at proximal node, leaflike, 1.5-2.5(-3.5) × 0.3-0,8(-1) cm, sometimes absent immediately below involucre. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 8-11(-13) × 8-12 mm, thinly tomentose to lanate; teeth 6-10, usually lobelike, mostly reflexed, 2-6 mm. Flowers 7-9 mm, including 0.1-0.4 mm stipelike base; perianth creamy yellow to pale yellowish, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong-obovate; stamens exserted, 7-9 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 6-8 mm, glabrous.
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