Long-lived perennial, suffrutescent from a woody branching base, sometimes sprouting shoots from thick, lateral roots; stems up to 25 cm tall, puberulent or glabrescent at the base and glabrous for at least the upper two-thirds; leaves linear to line...
Perennial herb to 1.5 m tall, finely and inconspicuously pubescent; leaves palmately compound, with long petioles, leaflets 7-9, 3-7 cm long, oblong-oblanceolate, finely strigose below, glabrate above; racemes 10-30 cm long, flowers irregularly whorl...
Densely tufted perennial 5-25 cm tall, covered with minute, harsh, retrorsely barbed hairs that give the surface the texture of shark skin or a cat's tongue; basal leaves spatulate, dentate, with 2-4 teeth per side, or sometimes the smallest leaves n...
Rhizomatous perennial; stems much branched above, wiry, 4-30 cm tall, usually growing in isolated clumps and seldom forming dense stands; blades short, less than 3 cm long, strongly involute; inflorescence a narrow contracted panicle, 1-5 cm long, us...
Dense, more or less hemispherical, perennial herb or sub-shrub from a branched, woody caudex, 1-3 dm high; stems and leaves pubescent with appressed, 3-rayed to dendritic trichomes; leaves alternate, succulent, (18-)22-40(-48) mm long, (4-)6-12(-14) ...
Tufted perennial, 4-15 cm tall, forming clumps up to 2 dm across, covered with white, felty or woolly tomentum; basal leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate, 2-4 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat or with margins rolled inwards; stem leaves reduced to small sc...
Subrhizomatous perennial; stems 1-4 dm tall; leaves mostly basal, oblanceolate to obovate, dentate towards apex, lightly tomentose or glabrate at maturity; stem leaves few and much reduced upwards; heads radiate, erect, several to many in a corymbose...
Small, cushion-forming perennial herb with a branched caudex; stems erect or ascending, 2.5-6(-10) cm high, hirtellous, mostly obscured by the opposite leaves; stipules lanceolate, scarious, 5-8 mm long and generally equaling the leaves, to 1.5 mm wi...
Perennial herb up to about 25 cm tall, grayish-hairy with straight hairs that lie against the surface of the foliage; stems with a thin, cord-like, easily broken, subterranean portion bearing a few small bracts, and a very short aerial, leafy portion...