Plants greenish gray to silvery, ± sericeous. Stems 1(–3), ± erect; proximal internode lengths mostly 0.5–1.5(–2) times leaf lengths. Capitular leaves ± erect, appressed to heads, mostly oblanceolate to nearly linear, widest in distal 1/3, longest mostly 17–35 mm, lengths mostly 4.5–9 times widths, 2.5–5 times head heights. Heads ± spheric, largest 6–8 mm. Receptacles unlobed. Pistillate paleae collectively ± hidden by indument, longest 2.8–3.8 mm (lengths 1.5–3 times longest diams.; wings supramedian). Staminate corollas 1.3–1.9 mm, lobes 5. Cypselae ± cylindric, terete, 0.9–1.7 mm.
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