Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.4-1 × 0.5-1.5(-2) dm, glandular-hairy, grayish. Stems matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.3-)0.5-0.7 dm, glandular-hairy. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.2-0.4 cm, tomentose, glandular; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, (0.5-)0.6-0.9(-1) × 0.25-0.6 cm, densely white-tomentose and glandular on both surfaces or greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.5-1.5 cm; branches absent; bracts 5-6, scalelike, triangular, 1.3-1.6 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 5-7 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, 2.5-3 × (1.5-)2.5-3 mm, membranous, glabrous or glandular and sparsely floccose; teeth 5-6, erect, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers 2.5-3(-3.5) mm; perianth pale yellow, minutely glandular; tepals connate proximal 1/ 5, monomorphic, oblanceolate; stamens exserted, 3-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous.
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