Herbs, spreading, matted, synoecious, 1-2.5(-3) × 3-13 dm, tomentose. Stems: caudex spread-ing; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, nonflowering aerial branches, 1-2.5(-3) dm, tomentose. Leaves in loose basal rosettes; petiole 0.5-1 cm, tomentose; blade oblong to obovate, (0.7-)1-1.5 × (0.4-)0.8-1.3 cm, usually densely brown-tomentose abaxially, tomentose to thinly tomentose, floccose or glabrate adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences umbellate, rarely with an additional bracteate branch and 1 peduncle with 1 involucre, 0.8-3 × 1-3.5 cm; branches thinly tomentose; bracts 4-6(-8) at first node, lanceolate, 0.5-1.5 × 0.2-0.9 cm, scalelike distally, 1-3 × 0.5-1.5 mm. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 5-8 × 3-5 mm, tomentose; teeth 5-8, erect, 0.8-2 mm. Flowers 3-5 mm, including 0.3-0.6 mm stipelike base; perianth sulphur yellow, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, spatulate to obovate; stamens exserted, 3-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally, infrequently glabrous. Achenes light brown, 3.5-5 mm, glabrous except for sparsely pubescent beak.
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