Plants 8-16 cm . Leaves 8-12 × 2-2.5 cm, deeply lobed, lobes triangular, dentate, faces tomen-tose. Heads 1-4(-10). Calyculi: bractlets lanceolate (longest ± ¹/2 phyllaries). Involucres broadly cylindric, 13-17 mm in fruit. Cypselae dark brown, 6-9(-10) mm, narrowed and strongly tapered at apices; pappi 6-9 mm. 2n = 22, 33.

Flowering Jun-Jul. Dry open places, sagebrush scrub; 1200-2200 m; Calif., Oreg., Utah.

Subspecies cusickii is usually smaller than subsp. bakeri.