Perennials, 10–30 cm; rhizomes 3–10 cm. Stems 1–20, erect, green to brown beneath hairs, simple, slender, densely silvery-sericeous, glabrescent. Leaves: basal overwintering, blades linear-lanceolate, shorter than cauline, 30–40 × 3–4 mm, faces sericeous; proximal cauline withering by late summer; cauline crowded, overlapping, spreading to ascending, sessile, blades linear-lanceolate, 30–50 × 2–4.5 mm, margins entire, silvery-sericeous, apices acute, faces silvery-sericeous (hairs anastomosing). Heads 1–8 heads (per branch), in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 0.5–4 cm, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular, sparsely sericeous; bracteoles 1–3, linear-lanceolate. Involucres narrowly turbino-campanulate, 6–8 mm. Phyllaries in 4–6 series, margins scarious (midnerves pronounced), apices acute, faces sparsely sericeous, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 9–14(–18); laminae 6–8 mm. Disc florets 30–45; corollas 4.5–6.5 mm, tubes and proximal limbs sparsely pilose, lobes 0.5 mm, glabrous. Cypselae fusiform, ribbed, 3–4 mm, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of linear to linear-triangular scales 0.2–0.8 mm, inner of 25–40 bristles 4.2–6 mm. 2n = 18.
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