Plants pulvinate and cespitose, 0.5–1.2 dm tall, 0.7–4 dm across; aerial flowering stems erect, scapelike, (0.2) 0.4–1 dm long, tomentose or floccose; leaf blades oblanceolate to elliptic or, rarely, ovate, 0.4–2 (2.5) cm long, 0.2–1 cm wide, densely greenish- or grayish-white-tomentose on both surfaces or densely greenish-white tomentose abaxially, the margins plane; inflorescences capitate, 0.7–1.5 cm long, the branches absent; flowers 2–3.5 mm long, the perianth yellow, glabrous.