Leaf blades ovate, 10-20 × 5-15 mm, margins dentate-serrate, faces strigose, often glandular-puberulent as well. Involucres 10-15 mm. Phyllaries: outer 5-12-striate, lance-ovate to lance-linear, margins dentate, inner linear (± chartaceous). Florets 40-55; corollas cream, often purple-tinged.

Flowering Apr-Jun. Desert mountain slopes, washes; 100-1500 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).