Subshrubs, spreading, 2.5-5 × 3-6 dm, glabrate. Stems: caudex spreading to somewhat erect; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, nonflowering aerial branches, 2-3 dm, glabrate. Leaves in compact basal rosettes; petiole 0.2-0.4 cm, tomentose; blade narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5-2(-2.5) × 0.5-1 cm, densely white-tomentose on both surfaces, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences umbellate, 0.4-1 × 0.4-1 cm; branches glabrate; bracts 4-8, leaflike, occasionally midway along branch, lanceolate, 0.5-1.5 × 0.3-0.7 cm. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 3-4 × 3-4.5 mm, tomentose; teeth 6-10, lobelike, spreading, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers 4-5 mm, including 1-1.5 mm stipelike base; perianth bright yellow, villous abaxially; tepals monomorphic, obovate; stamens included to slightly exserted, 3-4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous except for sparsely pubescent beak.
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