Plants 0.5-2(-3) × 0.5-2 dm. Leaf blades broadly oblanceolate to broadly spatulate, 1-2 × 0.5-1 cm, apex round. Involucres obscurely ribbed at maturity. 2n = 38.

Flowering Apr-Jul. Sandy to gravelly places, mixed grassland, saltbush, blackbrush, and sagebrush communities, pinyon and/or juniper woodlands; 700-2900(-3100) m; Calif., Idaho, Nev., Oreg.

Variety spathulata is known only from the cold deserts of the Intermountain West.