Herbs, matted, not scapose, (0.02-)0.04-0.06(-0.08) × (0.5-)1-3(-4.5) dm, tomentose, grayish. Stems spreading, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 8 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems absent. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.1-0.3 cm, tomentose; blade narrowly spatulate, 0.4-0.8 × (0.15-)0.2-0.4 cm, densely grayish-white-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, 0.5-0.9 cm; branches absent; bracts absent. Peduncles erect, (1.5-)3-5(-7) cm, thinly tomentose, arising directly from caudices. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 2-3 × 1.5-2(-2.5) mm, rigid, thinly tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.6 mm. Flowers 2-3.5(-4) mm; perianth white, glabrous, pustulose; tepals connate proximal 1/ 5, slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl oblong, those of inner whorl oblong-oblanceolate; stamens slightly exserted, 2-3 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous except for slightly papillose beak.
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