Plants 1–30(–50) cm, self-compatible (heads not showy). Stems hirsute and glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish or purple, lateral branches seldom surpassing main stems. Leaf blades linear, 0.2–4 cm × 0.5–2 mm. Heads in open, corymbiform arrays (peduncles ± filiform). Involucres depressed-globose, 2.5–5 mm. Phyllaries ± hirsute and glandular-pubescent as well, glands golden yellow, apices ± erect, sulcate. Paleae mostly persistent, connate 1/2+ their lengths. Ray florets 1–8; corollas pale yellow, laminae 0.7–1 mm. Disc florets 1(–2), bisexual, fertile; corollas 1–1.8 mm, glabrous; anthers yellow to brownish. Ray cypselae black or brown, dull, compressed (strongly arcuate), beaked (beaks adaxially offset, curved). Disc cypselae obovoid, weakly compressed. 2n = 32.
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