Herbs, spreading, matted, 0.5-2 × 1-5 dm, glabrate or glabrous. Stems: caudex spreading; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, non-flowering aerial branches, 0.5-1.5(-2) dm, usually glabrous, with a whorl of 2-4 leaflike bracts ca. midlength, similar to leaf blade, 0.3-0.5 × 0.1-0.2 cm. Leaves in dense compact basal rosettes; petiole 0.2-0.6 cm, glabrate or glabrous; blade spatulate to round, (0.3-)0.5-0.8 × (0.2-)0.3-0.5(-0.7) cm, densely white to thinly tomentose abaxially, sparsely floccose to glabrate and green or olive green adaxially, rarely glabrous on both surfaces, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences capitate, rarely umbellate, 0.8-1.5 cm wide or 1-2 × 1-3 cm; branches usually glabrate; bracts absent immediately below involucre. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, (3-)3.5-4 × 4-6 mm, arachnoid-tomentose; teeth 6-10, lobelike, reflexed, (2-)2.5-3.5 mm. Flowers (4-)4.5-6 mm, including 0.6-1 mm stipelike base; perianth sulphur yellow, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 3.5-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 4.5-5 mm, glabrous.
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