Twigs sparsely short-hairy, not glandular-hairy. Leaf blades strongly white-glaucous, base rounded, sometimes ± lobed to truncate, surfaces smooth, glabrous. Inflorescences: im-mature inflorescence axis densely white-hairy; bracts densely white-hairy. Pedicels densely white-hairy. Ovaries densely white-hairy. Fruits slightly depressed-globose. Stones distinct.

Flowering winter-early spring. Interior chaparral chiefly on granitic rocks; of conservation concern; 50-2200 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Subspecies adamsii occurs in interior chaparral chiefly on granitic rocks in the Peninsular Range of California, extending into northern Baja California.