Perennial herbs, 10–20 cm tall, multi-stemmed, stems ascending to erect, simple, densely leafy at base and more loosely in upper part, grayish-woolly, with basal rosette of leaves, persisting at flowering. Leaves broadly obovate or obovate, attenuate at base, apex rounded to obtuse, mucronate, margins flat; concolor ous, grayish-woolly on both surfaces; trichomes long, eglandular, eseptate, with basal cells expanded; basal leaves 25–35 × 8–12 mm, cauline leaves 10–30 × 3–10 mm, gradually diminishing in size upward. Ca pitula many, in clusters in axils of upper leaves, ar ranged in continuous, elongated spikes, interrupted at base. Involucre narrowly campanulate, 3.5–4 × 1.6 2.2 mm. Phyllaries 4- or 5-seriate, lamina stramineous; outer phyllaries ca. 3 × 1–1.2 mm, lanceolate, apex acuminate, sparsely lanuginose; inner phyllaries 3–3.8 × 0.5–0.8 mm, oblanceolate, apex acute, glabrous. Pis- tillate florets 50 to 70, corolla 2.2–2.5 mm. Bisexual florets 3 or 4, corolla 2.4–2.8 mm, 5-lobed, anthers 5. Achenes ca. 0.7 mm, subglabrous to sparsely pilose, with short, globose duplex trichomes. Pappus bristles ca. 2.5 mm.