Plants 14-40+ cm. Stems 1-30(-50), not densely woolly among proximal leaves. Leaves crowded (internodes not evident), blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, usually densely gland-dotted. Involucres 5-10 × 7-12 mm. Ray corollas 9.5-22 mm. Disc corollas 2.8-3.5 mm. 2n = 30, 60.

Flowering (Jan-)Mar-Jun(-Dec). Roadsides, hillsides, pastures, open areas, edges of woods; 300-2400 m; Colo., Kans., Nebr., N.Mex., Okla., Tex.; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas).