Subshrubs. Stems usually more than 1, ascending to erect, puberulent or canescent, sparsely or not stipitate-glandular; branches divaricate to ascending. Mid leaf blades lanceolate to linear. Peduncles equaling or longer than involucres. Involucres broadly turbinate to hemispheric, (10-)12-16 mm. Phyllaries in 5-10 series, reflexed, apices densely stipitate-glandular. Ray florets pistillate, fertile. Cypselae sparsely to moderately appressed-hairy.

Flowering Jul-Oct. Pine forests in the Santa Rosa Mountains (Riverside County); 1400-2500 m; Calif.