Herbs, erect, 3-5 × 0.5-1 dm, tomentose, brownish. Stems slightly spreading to erect, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1.5-2.5 dm, tomentose. Leaves basal, 1 per node; petiole (2-)3-7 cm, tomentose; blade elliptic to oblong, (2-)2.5-4.5(-5) × 1.5-3.5(-4) cm, thinly tomentose abaxially, less so to floccose and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, with involucres racemosely disposed at tips, 15-25 × 5-15 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 2-4 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate, 3-4 × 3-4 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.1-0.3 mm. Flowers 2.5-4.5(-5) mm; perianth creamy white or cream, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 4, monomorphic, broadly oblanceolate; stamens exserted, 2.5-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2-4 mm, glabrous. 2n = 40.
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