Cushion plants, ca. 7 cm tall. Leafy shoots densely compact, with dense overlapping leaves. Leaves inconspicuously petiolate; leaf blade spatulate, 1-1.2 × 0.35-0.7 cm, white or gray-white, both surfaces densely long lanate, apex truncate or rounded, 3-6-divided. Capitula 10, in a dense corymb ca. 2.5 cm in diam. at apices of branches. Involucres cuneate, ca. 6 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 rows, outer ones linear, ca. 7 mm, abaxially densely long lanate, middle and inner ones oblanceolate, ca. 5 mm, abaxially lanate above middle part or at upper part in inner ones. Florets yellow, ca. 3 mm. Fl. Aug-Oct.