Herbs, erect, loosely to densely matted, not scapose, 1-5 × 1-10 dm, tomentose or glabrous. Stems spreading to erect, with or without persistent leaf bases, up to 4 height of plant; caudex stems absent or spreading to matted; aerial flowering stems erect to spreading, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-3 dm, tomentose or glabrous. Leaves basal, 1 per node; petiole rarely twisted or curled, 1-6 cm, mostly tomentose; blade elliptic to ovate, 0.5-2.5(-4) × (0.3-)0.5-1.5 cm, lanate, tomentose to floccose on both surfaces, sometimes sparsely tomentose to floccose and greenish or floccose to subglabrous or glabrous adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences umbellate-cymose to cymose, 1-20 × 3-25 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose to floccose or less often glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, rarely 2-5 per cluster, narrowly turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 4-6 × 1.5-5 mm, tomentose or glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-1.3 mm. Flowers 3-5(-6) mm; perianth yellow or white to rose or purple, glabrous; tepals connate proximally, dimorphic, those of outer whorl elliptic to nearly orbiculate, 2-3 × 2-3 mm, those of inner whorl oblanceolate to oblong, 3-4 × 1-2 mm; stamens included to slightly exserted, 2-5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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