Plants weakly erect, grayish to greenish, 0.5-3 × 1-2 dm, mostly densely silky-puberulent. Stems 0.3-0.8 dm. Leaf blades obovate to rounded, 0.5-1.5 × 0.5-1.5 cm. Inflorescences spreading, open, 5-25 cm; bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2-5(-9) × 1-2(-2.5) mm, somewhat foliaceous, puberulent. Involucral bracts oblanceolate, 0.5-1.2 × 0.1-0.3 mm, villous abaxially, outermost one 2-or 3-lobed apically. Flowers: perianth white to pale yellow, becoming rose or red in fruit, 1.5-2 mm, minutely pustulose basally and along midribs; tepals slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl narrowly ovate, slightly auriculate basally with undulate-crisped margins in fruit, those of inner whorl narrowly oblanceolate, often shorter than those of outer whorl; filaments 0.8-1.2 mm. Achenes 1-1.5 mm.
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