Plants 10-30 cm . Leaves 8-12 × 3-4 cm, deeply lobed, lobes lanceolate to elliptic, faces canescent-tomentulose. Heads 2-13. Calyculi: bractlets lanceolate (longest ± ¹/2 phyllaries). Involu-cres broadly cylindric, 16-20 mm in fruit. Cypselae dark brown, 8-10.5 mm, apices slightly tapered; pappi 9-10.5 mm. 2n = 44.

Flowering May-Jul. Dry open slopes; 500-1900 m; Calif., Nev., Oreg., Wash.