Annuals, biennials, or short-lived perennials. Stems usually 1, stiffly erect, canescent, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular; branches widely divaricate, straight, stiff. Mid leaf blades linear-lanceolate to linear. Peduncles equaling or longer than involucres. Involucres broadly turbinate, 6-10(-12) mm. Phyllaries in 5-10 series, usually reflexed, apices usually canescent, stipitate-glandular. Ray florets pistillate, fertile. Cypselae sparsely to moderately appressed-hairy.

Flowering Jun-Oct. Grasslands, sagebrush scrublands, usually in sandy or alluvial soils along streams; 300-1500 m; B.C.; Idaho, Oreg., Wash.