Perennial herb with a cluster of very short branches at the crown, each producing a rosette of leaves, flowering stems several, lateral, simple or branched, prostrate, 40-120(-400) mm long, grey-woolly, leafy. Radical leaves up to 40 x 15 mm, obovate-oblong, apex obtuse, base slightly narrowed, half-clasping, both surfaces thickly grey-woolly; cauline leaves similar but commonly smaller and narrowly oblong. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 4 mm, many felted together at the base in a congested, rounded, terminal, corymbose cluster 15-20 mm across, occasionally up to 4 of these clusters in turn closely agglomerated. Involucral bracts in 3 series, loosely imbricate, about equalling the flowers, not radiating, translucent, tawny-yellow, mostly tipped golden brown. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers ±40-70, ±27-38 female, 22-35 homogamous, yellow. Achene 0.75 mm, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, delicate, tips barbellate, bases with patent cilia, not cohering.
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Stems prostrate, 40-400 mm long, grey-woolly, leafy. Leaves: radical leaves up to 40 mm long, obovate-oblong, base ± clasping, both sides thickly grey-woolly; cauline leaves similar but smaller and narrowly oblong. Capitula campanulate, 4 x 4 mm, felted together in dense, rounded, terminal clusters 15-20 mm in diam.; involucral bracts in 3 series, tawny-yellow, tipped golden-brown. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 40-70, yellow. Flowering time Feb.-Apr. Pappus of bristles with barbellate apex, bases not cohering.
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