Outer phyllaries: chartaceous bases deltate to ovate, 2-5+ mm, herbaceous tips usually spreading to recurved, narrowly triangular to attenuate, 10-20 mm, margins and faces minutely hispidulous to hirtellous.

Flowering May-Jul. Desert sandy and rocky sites, dunes, washes; 1000-1700 m; Ariz., Colo., N.Mex., Utah.