Herbs, spreading, annual, 0.5-2.5 dm, glabrous, reddish green to reddish. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, solid, not fistulose, 0.1-0.4 dm, glabrous except somewhat villous proximally. Leaves basal; petiole 1-5 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade oblong to orbiculate, (0.5-)1-4 × (0.5-)1-3 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose to glabrate and reddish or greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, diffuse, flat-topped to rounded, 5-20 × 10-35 cm; branches glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, 0.5-2 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles erect, straight, filiform, (0.3-)0.5-1 cm, glabrous, rarely absent distally. Involucres turbinate, (0.3-)0.5-1 × (0.2-)0.5-1 mm, glabrous; teeth 4, erect, 0.1-0.3 mm. Flowers 0.5-1.2 mm in early anthesis, becoming 1-1.5 mm; perianth yellowish to red in early anthesis, becoming pink to rose, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, elliptic to obovate; stamens included to slightly exserted, 0.7-1 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes dark brown to black, lenticular, 0.6-1 mm, glabrous.
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