Stems elongate, prostrate, rather stout, ± flexible, branching, up to 3 dm. long; branchlets ± ascending, slender, rather densely clad in ± spreading white hairs; bark pale to rather dark brown. Lvs approximate to imbricate, on short broad petioles. Lamina narrow-oblong to ovate-elliptic to lanceolate (all forms may be on same plant), acute, subcoriac.; glabrate above, clad in lax silky hairs below; margins ciliate. Subfloral lvs broad-ovate. Infl. of 3-4-fld heads. Per. ± 8 mm. long, with spreading hairs; lobes ovate, obtuse, 3-4 mm. long. Fr. baccate or dry.
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