Plants 17-40+ cm. Stems 1-20, densely woolly among proximal leaves. Leaves not crowded (internodes evident); blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or oblanceolate, ± gland-dotted. Involucres 6-10 × 9-12 mm. Ray corollas (7.4-)9.5-14 mm. Disc corollas 2.5-3 mm. 2n = 30.

Flowering Feb-Apr(-Jun; also Nov). Roadsides, pastures; 100-200 m; Tex.; Mexico (Tamaulipas).