Stems 10-40 cm, glabrous. Leaves mostly basal, faces sericeous; proximalmost 4-8 × 0.5-1 cm, cauline 1.5-0.8 × 0.2 cm. Heads in 2-5 × 0.5-1 cm arrays. Involucres 3-4 × 4-5 mm. Corollas yellow or reddish-tinged, 1.5-2 mm.

Flowering late summer-fall. Subalpine and alpine meadows, rocky soils; 2700-3900 m; Colo., Idaho, N.Mex., Utah.