Herbs, perennial, similar to Antennaria in habit. Rhizome stout, densely covered with brown decayed leaves with dense radical rosettes of sterile leaves and flowering stems. Stems usually single, erect, 8-35 cm tall, densely white lanuginous. Leaves spatulate to spatulate-lanceolate, 20-50 × 3-12 mm, both surfaces densely white tomentose, apex rounded. Capitula 3-10, heterogamous, in 1 or rarely 2-5 dense corymbs, 5-6 mm in diam.; bracteal leaves 5-8, linear-spatulate, similar to upper cauline leaves, forming a star of 2-5 cm in diam. or rarely compound stars. Involucre ca. 4 mm, white lanate; phyllaries 2- or 3-seriate, inner ones lanceolate, apex light brown or red, acute or obtuse, glabrous. Corolla 3-3.5 mm, upper part usually light red, scurfy pilosulose; corolla of male florets narrowly funnel-shaped in upper part, with narrowly triangular lobes; corolla of female florets filiform. Achenes ca. 1 mm, hairy. Pappus light red or red, longer than corolla, serrulate. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.

● Grassy slopes, thickets, dry riverbeds; 1200-3700 m. W Sichuan.