Stoloniferous perennial herb, stems mostly 100—300 mm long, simple or branching, prostrate or decumbent, thinly greyish cottony-tomentose, leafy. Leaves ascending, appressed, mostly c. 8—20 x 2,5—4 (—5) mm, oblong-spathulate or rarely narrowly oblong-elliptic, apex usually obtuse, conspicuously mucronate, often folded lengthwise and somewhat recurved, margins more or less undulate, both surfaces loosely greyish-white appressed tomentose, often somewhat glabrescent. Heads c. 3—3,5 x 3 mm, in small corymbose clusters at or near the branch tips, eventually carried clear of the leaves on cottony peduncles. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, golden-brown, glabrous or nearly so, inner with opaque, snow-white, oblong, obtuse tips exceeding the flowers. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 112-188, 90-159 ("female"), 20-50 ("bisexual"), in the proportion 2,5—7:1. Achenes c. 0,5 mm long with duplex myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles either wanting in ("female") flowers or scabrid, bristles on ("bisexual") flowers shortly plumose at tips. Fig. 4:5.
