Stems few to many in clumps, often glabrous basally, viscid-pubescent or ± scabrous distally. Leaf blades 1-4.5 × 0.4-3.5 cm. Inflorescences ± thyrselike, often narrow; involucres in clusters on short branches along main axis after first few dichotomous branches, 5-9 mm; bracts 30-70% connate, lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, base often 50-70% of height, apex obtuse or acute. Flowers: perianth usually pink, lavender, or magenta, rarely white. Fruits dark to pale gray-brown and mottled with dark gray-brown, tan, or red-brown, sometimes also faintly and irregularly pale striped, ovoid, 3-5 × 2.7-3.7 mm.
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