Herbs, erect, 1–5 dm, glabrous, greenish to grayish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5–1.5(–2) dm, glabrous. Leaves basal; petiole 1–5 cm, floccose; blade round to reniform, (0.3–)1–2(–4) × (0.3–)1–2(–4) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose to glabrate and mostly greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, occasionally distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, 5–40 × 5–35 cm; branches straight or nearly so, infrequently inwardly curved distally, glabrous; bracts 1–3 × 1–2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres appressed to branches, cylindric-turbinate, 3–4 × 2–2.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.2–0.3 mm. Flowers 1.5–2 mm; perianth white to pink or red, rarely yellow, glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong-obovate; stamens included, 1–1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 2 mm. 2n = 40.