Stems glabrous or densely stipitate-glandular. Leaves: mid blades 6-20 mm wide, margins usually serrate, faces sometimes puberulent, stiffly long-stipitate-glandular. Involucres hemispheric, 7-13 mm. Phyllary apices acuminate to long-acuminate, 2-5 mm, faces sometimes canescent, stipitate-glandular. 2n = 8.

Flowering May-Oct. Grasslands, creosote bush scrublands, and pine/oak woodlands; 600-2400 m; Ariz, Nev., N.Mex., Utah.