Stems hairy to canescent, sometimes sparsely glandular. Leaves: mid blades 6-20 mm wide, margins usually serrate or serrulate, faces puberulent or canescent, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular. Involucres hemispheric, 8-15 mm. Phyllary apices long-acuminate, 3-6 mm, faces puberulent or canescent, sparsely stipitate-glandular. 2n = 8.

Flowering Jul-Oct. Grasslands, creosote bush scrublands, pine/oak woodlands, often along streams; 300-2400 m; Ariz., Calif., Nev., N.Mex.; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora).