Herbs, erect or spreading, annual, 0.5-4(-5) dm, minutely viscid, yellowish green. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, solid, not fistulose, 0.2-1 dm, minutely viscid. Leaves basal; petiole 0.5-4 cm, floccose; blade elliptic to broadly ovate, 0.5-3 × 0.5-3 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, thinly floccose to glabrate and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, open, 3-35 × 3-30 cm; branches minutely viscid; bracts 3, scalelike, 1-2 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles erect or nearly so, straight, filiform, 0.5-1.5 cm, viscid. Involucres narrowly turbinate, 1-1.2 × 0.6-0.8 mm, viscid; teeth 4, erect, 0.3-0.5 mm. Flowers 1.3-1.5 mm in early anthesis, becoming 1.5-2 mm; perianth pale yellow to yellow in early anthesis, becoming tinged with red, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong; stamens included, 0.9-1.1 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes light to dark brown, 3-gonous, 0.8-1 mm, glabrous.
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