Twigs short-hairy (without longer hairs). Leaf blade surfaces glabrous abaxially. Immature inflorescence axes glabrous or hairy, sometimes glandular (not densely glandular-hairy). Ovaries glabrous.

Flowering winter-early spring. Maritime chaparral and closed-cone conifer forests on siliceous shales; of conservation concern; 100-200 m; Calif.

Subspecies eastwoodiana is found in the La Purisima Hills, Santa Barbara County.