Stems simple, densely hirsute, sparsely minutely glandular; stems and basal leaves originating from compressed nodes at caudex apices. Heads 1. Involucres densely hirsute, sparsely minutely glandular. Ray florets 15-45.

Flowering Apr-Jun(-Aug). Shallow soil, open rocky, gravelly, or sandy slopes, grassland, sagebrush and rabbitbrush plains, juniper woodland, yellow pine and pine-juniper; 100-1600 m; B.C.; Idaho, Oreg., Wash.