Annuals, 2-15 cm. Stems spreading. Leaves: blades ± cuneate, ± 10 mm, usually 3-lobed, ultimate margins entire, plane (apices ± rounded), faces ± woolly. Heads borne singly or in clusters. Peduncles ± 0.1 cm. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric, 2-3+ mm diam. Phyllaries 5-7, distinct. Ray florets 5-7; laminae yellow, ± 2 mm. Disc florets 10-20; corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages narrowly deltate, not glandular). Cypselae ± 2 mm; pappi usually of 10-15 ± lanceolate scales ± 1 mm, rarely 0. 2n = 14.

Flowering Mar-Jul. Sandy openings in chaparral or coastal scrublands; 0-1600 m; Calif.