Herbs, perennial. Rhizome short, with flowering and sterile stems. Flowering stems erect, 2-25 cm tall, not branched, gray silky or ash-colored lanate. Leaves in lower part usually larger than those in upper part; blade linear or spatulate-linear, 20-130 × 1.5-9 mm, both surfaces densely gray silky or ash-colored lanate, sometimes adaxially subglabrous and green, base narrowed and indistinctly sheathed, apex obtuse. Capitula 3-30, aggregated in corymbs, 6-9 mm in diam.; bracteal leaves 6-10, oblong to lanceolate, 10-20 × 3-6 mm, forming a star of 3.5-5 cm in diam., both surfaces densely gray silky or ash-colored lanate, apex acute. Phyllaries ovate-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, white lanate outside, apex usually dark brown, acute. Corolla ca. 4 mm. Achenes glabrous or papillose. Pappus white, slightly longer than corolla, serrulate. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.
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