Herbs, typically prostrate mats, 0.5-1 × 1-5 dm. Aerial flowering stems spreading to erect, 0.3-0.9 dm, thinly tomentose to nearly glabrous, without one or more leaflike bracts ca. midlength. Leaves in tight rosettes; blade usually narrowly elliptic, 0.3-0.6(-1) × 0.2-0.4(-0.6) cm, white-tomentose abaxially, slightly less so and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences compact-umbellate; branches 0.2-1 cm, thinly tomentose to floccose, without a whorl of bracts ca. midlength; involucral tubes 1.5-2.5 mm, lobes 1-3 mm. Flowers 2-4(-5) mm; perianth bright yellow.