Stuartina

Annual herbs, prostrate to erect, cottony. Leaves sessile and spathulate but dilated at the base, often appearing petiolate, entire, cottony. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary compound heads, subtended by several leaves that exceed the heads, cottony at the base of the head and capitula. Capitula disciform, heterogamous; involucral bracts in several unequal rows, hyaline but at least the 2 innermost bracts with rigid, recurved apices, glabrous or with long-cottony hairs; receptacle subconical, ebracteate. Florets 5–6, outer florets female, filiform; inner florets several, bisexual, 5-lobed; style branches truncate; stamens 5, anthers tailed. Cypselas uniform, obovoid, minutely papillate; pappus absent.