Perennial herbs, caespitose, stems prostrate, 3–10 (–20) cm, branched, more densely leafy at base and more loosely in upper part, whitish-woolly. Leaves 6–8 (–25) × (2.5–)4.5–6(–10) mm, broadly obovate, attenu ate at base, apex rounded, mucronate; concolorous, whitish-woolly on both surfaces; trichomes long, eglan dular, eseptate, filiform from base to tip. Capitula many, in headlike clusters, subtended by obovate leaves. In volucre narrowly campanulate, 3–5 × 2.5–4 mm. Phyl laries 12 to 20, 4-seriate, lamina light brown at apex; outer phyllaries 2–3.8 × 1–1.5 mm, ovate, apex acute to acuminate, lanuginose; inner phyllaries 3–4.5 × 0.5–1 mm, oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or subacute, glabrous. Pistillate florets (9 to)14 to 18, corolla 2.2–3 mm. Bisexual florets 3 to 5, corolla 2.5–3 mm, 5-lobed (rarely 4- or 6-lobed), anthers 5. Achenes 0.5–1.5 mm, pilose, with clavate duplex trichomes. Pappus bristles 2.5–3 mm.