Shrubs, sprawling to erect, not scapose, 1-4(-5) × (1-)2-6(-9) dm, thinly tomentose or floccose to subglabrous, greenish. Stems spreading or erect, without persistent leaf bases, up to 2 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.05-0.3 dm, thinly tomentose. Leaves cauline, fasciculate; petiole 0.05-0.1 cm, glabrous; blade linear-oblanceolate or linear-elliptic, 0.3-0.8(-1) × (0.05-)0.1-0.2 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, thinly floccose or glabrous and greenish adaxially, margins rolled. Inflorescences cymose, compact, 1-3 × 1-3 cm; branches dichotomous, thinly tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, (0.5-)1-2 mm. Peduncles absent or erect, 0.1-0.8(-1) cm, thinly tomentose. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 3-4.5 × 2.5-3.5 mm wide, thinly tomentose to subglabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-1.2 mm. Flowers 3.5-4.5(-5) mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 3, dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly cordate, 2-3 mm wide, apex rounded, those of inner whorl oblanceolate, 1-2 mm wide; stamens exserted, 3.5-4.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 4-4.5 mm, glabrous.
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