Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.3-0.5(-0.7) × (0.5-)1-4(-20) dm, floccose to tomentose, greenish or grayish. Stems matted, sometimes only seemingly so, with persistent leaf bases, up to 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems absent or scapelike, erect or nearly so, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.05-)0.1-0.3 dm, floccose to tomentose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.2-0.5 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade oblanceolate to elliptic or spatulate, (0.2-)0.3-0.8(-1.2) × 0.2-0.4(-0.6) cm, tomentose to floccose, margins plane or slightly thickened. Inflorescences capitate, 0.8-2 cm; branches absent; bracts 3-5, scalelike, linear to linear-lanceolate, 1.5-4 × 0.6-1 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 2-4(-6) per cluster, campanulate, (2-)2.5-5(-6) × 3-6(-7) mm, rigid, tomentose; teeth 5-10, erect to spreading, (0.5-)1-3 mm. Flowers 2.5-4 mm; perianth white to rose or yellow, densely pilose; tepals connate proximally, monomorphic, oblong to obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5-5 mm; filaments subglabrous or sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 2.5-3 mm, tomentose.
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