Annuals, 5–15 cm. Stems ascending. Leaves: blades oblanceolate, 1–2 cm, margins entire, plane (apices acute), faces woolly. Heads borne singly or in loose arrays. Peduncles ± 1 cm. Involucres cylindric, 3–4+ mm diam. Phyllaries 4–6, distinct. Ray florets 4–6; laminae yellow, ± 1 mm (inconspicuous). Disc florets 10–20; corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly funnelform, abruptly dilated, lobes not glandular; anther appendages deltate, glandular). Cypselae 2.5–3 mm; pappi of 8–10 lanceolate to spatulate (± unequal) scales 0.5–1.5 mm. 2n = 14.
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