White-woolly herb, root possibly perÂennial, stems tufted from the crown, very variable in length, mostly 30-450 mm, prostrate to weakly erect, subsimple to laxly branched, woolly, leafy. Leaves mostly 6-35 (-50) x 2-5 mm, smaller upwards, oblanceolate or narrowly spathulate, apex obtuse to subacute, base much attenuated, petiole-like especially in lower leaves, both surfaces thinly white woolly. Heads heteroÂgamous, campanulate, 2,5—3 x 2—2,5 mm, in small glomerules 5 — 10 mm across, subcorymbosely arranged at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in c. 5 series, backs woolly, outer shorter, inner subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, sometimes purplish red above stereome, tips broadly ovate to suborbicular, very obtuse, opaque white, radiating, eventually whole bract rotate. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 20—37, 5-13 ("female"), 15-24 ("bisexual"), yellow, tipped pink. Achenes 0,5 mm long, with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips subplumose, bases with patent cilia, scarcely cohering. Herba albo-lanata, radice fortasse per-enni; caules e caudice caespitosi, longitudine variabiles plerumque 30—450 mm, prostrati vel infirme erecti, subsimplices vel laxe ramosi, lanati, foliati. Folia plerumque 6—35 (—50) x 2—5 mm, sur sum decrescentia, oblanceolata vel anguste spatulata, apice obtuso vel subacuto, ad basin multo attenua-ta praecipue in foliis inferioribus petiolaria, utrinque tenuiter albo-lanata. Capitula hete-rogama, campanulata, 2,5—3 x 2—2,5 mm, in glomerulos parvos 5—10 mm diametro ad ramulorum apices subcorymbose disposita. Involucri bracteae c. 5-seriatae, dor so lanatae, exteriores breviores, interiores sub-aequales flores paulo superantes, interdum supra stereomate rubro-purpureae, demum horizontaliter patentia. Receptaculum fere laeve. Flores 20-37, 5-13 feminei, 15-24 hermaphroditi, flavi, roseo-apiculati. Ach-aenia 0,5 mm longa, pilis duplicibus myxogenis. Pappi setae numerosae, corol-lam aequantes, apicibus subplumosis, basi pilis patentibus vix inter se cohaerentes.
