Perennials, 5–15+ cm. Caudices ± branched, branches notably thickened distally. Stems 1–15, erect, unbranched. Leaves all basal (new leaves tightly clustered); blades obovate or oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, entire, densely hairy (not strigoso-canescent), ± gland-dotted. Heads 1–15 per plant, borne singly. Peduncles 4–15 cm, ± hairy. Involucres 5–9 × 6–10 mm. Outer phyllaries 8–10, 4–5(–6) mm, margins 0–0.2 mm wide, sometimes slightly scarious, abaxial faces densely hairy. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 20–40; corollas yellow, 2.5–4 mm. Cypselae 2.8–4 mm; pappi of 5–6 ovate to lanceolate or obovate to oblanceolate, aristate scales 2.5–3.5 mm.
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