Herbs, 5-12 × 2-5 dm, white-to rufous-tomentose. Aerial flowering stems erect, 1.5-7 dm, rounded and smooth. Leaves: petiole 2-7 cm; blade oblong to elliptic or spatulate, 4-15 × 1.5-4 cm, densely tomentose abaxially, subglabrous or glabrous adaxially. Inflorescences (3-)5-30 × 3-20 cm; bracts 3-5, leaflike, ovate to elliptic, 1-6 × 0.5-2.5 cm proximally, semileaflike, usually elliptic, 4-30 × 1-20 mm distally. Peduncles absent. Involucres turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 3-4.5(-5) × 3-5 mm; teeth 0.1-0.5 mm. Flowers 8-13 mm, including 2.5-3.5(-4) mm stipelike base; perianth cream to light tan, densely tannish-to rusty-lanate abaxially; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly lanceolate, 3-5 × 1.7-2.2 mm, those of inner whorl obovate to nearly orbiculate, 3-6 × 3-4 mm; stamens 3.5-5 mm; filaments pilose. Achenes brown, 4.5-5 mm, glabrous.
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