Annual herb with a slender taproot, branches 30-150 mm long, many from the crown, slender, prostrate, loosely branched, reddish, loosely woolly, distantly leafy except at the crown and under the heads. Leaves 5-23 x 1-9 mm, spathulate to oblong-spathulate, apex obtuse, base narrowed, half-clasping, margins flat, both surfaces loosely grey-woolly. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, campanulate, ±3-4 x 2.5 mm, in small leafy clusters at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, graded, outer lightly webbed with wool to surrounding leaves, inner about equalling flowers, not radiating, tips very obtuse, somewhat concave, semipellucid, whitish to light golden-brown. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 14-38, 0-3 female, 14-37 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips scabrid, bases not cohering.
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Prostrate annual with slender, reddish brown stems, sparsely leafy except under flowerheads. Leaves spathulate, mostly 5-20 x 1-9 mm, grey-woolly. Flowerheads in small leafy clusters, discoid or disciform, bracts 4-or 5-seriate, obtuse, slightly concave apically, whitish to pale golden-brown, woolly below, florets 15-40.
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