Herbs, spreading, not scapose, 1.5-4 × 1-3 dm, tomentose or, rarely, glabrous, grayish. Stems spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 4 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-2 dm, tomentose or rarely glabrous. Leaves sheathing up stem 1-8 cm, 1 per node; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm, tomentose; blade lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or narrowly spatulate, 1-4(-6) × 0.3-1 cm, tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane, rarely crenulate or revolute. Inflorescences cymose, 3-10 × 3-10 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose or rarely glabrous; bracts 3, narrowly triangular, scalelike, 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres (1-)3-6 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, 2-3(-3.5) × 2-2.5(-3) mm, tomentose, rarely glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 2.5-3 mm; perianth ochroleucous or pale yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 4, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 2.5-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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