Plants 30–45 cm. Stems erect or ascending, stiff, woody, branched from bases and distally. L eaves: proximal blades linear-acicular, 5–30 × 2–4 mm, stiff, spreading; cauline reduced distally, not scalelike. Heads 1–10, in loose, corymbiform arrays. Involucres cylindric (V-shaped in fruit), 20–22 × 5–7 mm, apices spreading. Phyllaries ca. 6. Florets 5, corollas white (or fading to pinkish). Cypselae seldom formed (ovaries 4–5 mm, abaxial faces smooth, adaxial weakly rugose, bisulcate with ridge separating sulci). 2n = 27.
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