Herbs, matted, not scapose, 0.01-0.05 × 0.1-0.6 dm, villous to silky-tomentose, grayish. Stems matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 8 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems spreading to prostrate, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.05-)0.15-0.5(-0.8) dm, villous to silky-tomentose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole 0.05-0.1(-1.5) cm, silky-tomentose; blade narrowly elliptic, 0.3-1 × 0.1-0.2(-0.3) cm, villous to silky-tomentose, margins plane. Inflorescences subcapitate or cymose-umbellate, 0.3-0.9 × 0.5-1.2(-2) cm; branches dichotomous, villous to silky-tomentose; bracts 4-8, semileaflike, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-6(-8) × 0.3-0.7(-1) mm. Peduncles absent or erect, slender, 0.05-0.15 cm, villous to silky-tomentose. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, (3.5-)4-5 × (3.5-)4-5 mm, rigid, tomentose; teeth 6-8(-13), spreading, 2-3 mm. Flowers 3-4.5 mm; perianth white to rose, pilose; tepals connate proximal 4, monomorphic, oblong to spatulate; stamens exserted, 3-4 mm; filaments glabrous proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous.
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