Tufted herb up to 5 cm. tall with radical lvs and one or more scapiform stems. Lvs rarely > 1·5 cm. long, very narrow-lanceolate, acute, petiole ± = lamina, which is nearly glab. above and clad in appressed white tomentum below, except midrib. Scapes filiform, erect, c. 2 cm. long, tomentose with a few linear bracts c. 5 mm. long or less. Capitula solitary, c. 1 cm. or less diam.; receptacle alveolate, flat, 1-2 mm. diam. Phyll. 3-4 mm. long, linear, acute, scarious; outer shorter, ± tomentose; inner glab., shining. Achenes < 1 mm. long, linear, with sparsely appressed hairs. Pappus c. 3 mm. long, of 15-25 filiform hairs.

2n = 28

Stoloniferous perennial; stems 1-2, ascending, simple, 1-5 cm tall. Lvs mostly basal; basal lvs cuneate to short petiole, densely white-tomentose on lower surface except mid-vein, usually glabrous and folded, sometimes sparsely tomentose and plane on upper, elliptic to linear-elliptic or narrow-oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute, 5-20 × 0.5-2-(4) mm; cauline lvs 1-3, scalelike, scarcely reduced upwards, ovate-triangular, amplexicaul. Capitula c. 1 mm diam., solitary; subtending lvs 0; scape amongst lvs at flowering, filiform and exceeding lvs at fruiting. Involucral bracts elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 3.8-4.5 mm long; stereome green, tinged reddish purple at apex; lamina pale brown, with darker band at base; gap and margins tinged pale to deep reddish purple. Achenes with short antrorse hairs, c. 1 mm long.