Subshrubs, 0.4–1 m, branches slender, indument white or grayish, sparse to dense, shaggy-tomentose, canescent, hairs mostly stellate, stalked, 10–30-armed. Leaf blades ± round, 3-or 5-lobed, to 5(–8) cm, thin to moderately thick, surfaces: adaxial dark green and glabrate, abaxial soft-tomentose, lobes triangular to rounded, basal sinus not overlapping. Inflorescences short-spicate, flower clusters subsessile, congested; involucellar bractlets filiform to linear, 3–9 × 0.5 mm, 3/4 to exceeding calyx length. Flowers: calyx campanulate, 5–9 mm, lobes coherent, narrowly triangular, 3.5–6.5 × 1.5–2.3 mm, ca. 2 times as long as wide, 2–3 times tube length, apex long-acute to acuminate, densely villous; petals white, fading lavender, 1.5 cm. Mericarps 2–3 mm. 2n = 34.
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