Plants 10-40 cm. Stems (with definite primary axes, branched distally) tomentulose, eglandular. Leaves 10-20 × 2-5 cm, coarsely dentate or pinnately lobed (lobes closely spaced. Heads 5-15. Peduncles tomentulose, stipitate-glandular. Phyllaries mostly 8, usually ± tomentose (at least proximally), rarely eglandular. Florets 12-20. Cypselae brown.

Flowering Jun-Jul. Serpentine slopes, open pine woods; 800-1800 m; B.C.; Calif., Idaho, Mont., Nev., Oreg., Utah, Wash.