Twigs short-hairy (without longer hairs). Leaf blade surfaces glabrous abaxially. Immature inflorescence axes glabrous or hairy, sometimes glandular (not densely glandular-hairy). Ovaries densely hairy.

Flowering winter-early spring. Maritime chaparral and coastal bluffs, historic stable dunes; of conservation concern; 0-200 m; Calif.

Subspecies rosei occurs in western San Francisco and disjunct to the Big Sur Coast region from Monterey to San Luis Obispo.