Short, stout, perennial, procumbent, with white tomentose stems 1 1/2 in. high, suffruticose at base; ascending stems simple or branched at base, terete. Leaves spathulate-oblong, obtuse, emarginate, slightly narrowed at the sessile base, coriaceous, glabrous, with 3–5 depressed veins above, appressedly velutinous and milk-white beneath, crowded at base of branches, 1/2– 4/5 in. long by 1/8– 3/16 in. wide, upper smaller; margins entire, finely revolute. Capitula narrowly campanulate, 6–7-flowered, 1/6 in. long, sessile, many together in a subglobular head 1/2– 2/3 in. diam., leafy at the base. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate, slightly purplish near tip, scarious with green midrib below; inner linear slightly dilated above, obtuse, glabrous; outer similar but smaller, thinly cottony outside. Florets all hermaphrodite. Achenes very nearly glabrous.
