Stock rather stout, woody; stems decumbent, woody at base, branches ascending; basal lvs not in subrosettes. Lvs densely to somewhat laxly imbricate, spreading, sts recurved, 5-10 × 2-4 mm., often apiculate, 3-5-nerved at base, obovate-cuneate, clad on both surfaces in appressed white to pale buff hairs. Peduncles hardly differentiated from branchlets. Capitula 5-15, congested into dense glomerules 9-15 mm. diam., subtended by up to 15 densely woolly lvs up to 1 cm. long, forming a distinct white ray. Phyll. linear, acute, c. 5 mm. long, scarious with basal stiffening. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, pappus-hairs 3-4 mm. long.
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