Herbs, spreading, annual, (0.5-)1-2(-3) dm, tomentose, greenish, grayish, or reddish. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, not striated or angled, solid, not fistulose, 0.2-0.8 dm, tomentose. Leaves basal and cauline; basal: petiole 0.5-1 cm, floccose, blade lanceolate to obovate, (0.5-)2-3 × 1.5-2 cm, tomentose abaxially, floccose to glabrate and grayish to greenish adaxially, margins entire or occasionally crenulate; cauline sessile, blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 0.5-2 × 0.3-1 cm, similar to basal blade. Inflorescences cymose, open, 4-25 × 5-30 cm; branches tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, 0.5-2.5 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles spreading, straight, capillary, 1-2 cm, sparsely glandular. Involucres campanulate, 2-3 × 2-4 mm, finely glandular; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 1-2.5 mm; perianth white to rose, glandular; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl obovate to spatulate, broadly inflated above middle, those of inner whorl narrowly spatulate; stamens included, 1-2 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3-gonous, 1-1.5 mm, glabrous.
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