Perennials or subshrubs, 30–75 cm (sprawling or pendulous, much branched, sparsely leafy); hispidulous. Leaves (mostly alternate): petioles 1–3(–8) mm; blades ovate to elliptic, 2–8 × 1–5 mm, margins entire. Heads borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 3.5–5 × 5–6 mm. Peduncles 4–70 mm. Involucres campanulate. Phyllaries 11–16, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3.5–5 × 0.5–1 mm. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 30–60; corollas yellow, tubes 0.5–0.8 mm, throats broadly tubular, 1.3–1.8 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm. Cypselae narrowly oblanceolate, 3–3.8 mm, faces glabrous, margins thin-calloused, relatively long-ciliate; pappi usually of 1–3(–4) unequal bristles 1–2.5 mm, rarely 0.
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