Herbs, dense, prostrate mats, 0.3-1 × 0.5-2 dm. Aerial flowering stems spreading, 0.2-0.8(-1.5) cm, tomentose, without one or more leaflike bracts ca. midlength. Leaves in tight rosettes; blade usually round-ovate, 0.3-0.8(-1) × 0.3-0.8 cm, densely lanate on both surfaces, margins plane. Inflorescences usually compact-umbellate; branches 0.5-2.5 cm, tomentose, without a whorl of bracts ca. midlength; involucral tubes 1.5-2 mm, lobes 1.5-2 mm. Flowers (2.5-)4-6 mm; perianth lemon yellow to yellowish red, becoming red to rose-red.