Plants 12–30 cm (sometimes weakly cespitose, caudices multicipital or with relatively short branches; rhizomes fibrous-rooted, thickened, becoming woody). Stems proximally herbaceous or slightly woody, eglandular. Leaves: proximal separated by evident internodes, spatulate, reduced in size distally; mid and distal linear-lanceolate, 15–25(–30) mm, margins green, faces hispidulous. Heads borne singly. Involucres 8–13 mm. Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corollas 7.5–8.5 mm. Cypselae 5–6 mm, faces sessile-to stipitate-glandular.