Leaves without prominent 1-directional orientation; blades (filiform or linear to oblanceolate) 20-40(-50) × 1-5(-10) mm, apices usually rounded, faces sparsely strigose to hirsuto-strigose. Phyllaries 0.5-0.8 mm wide, margins usually thick or only with narrow scarious rims, midnerves usually not distinct and orange-resinous, abaxial faces glabrate to sparsely strigose, sometimes sparsely, obscurely glandular; inner phyllaries 3.2-4.5 mm. Ray florets 15-49; corollas 6-10 mm. Disc corollas 3.5-4(-5) mm. 2n = 18.

Flowering May-Aug(-Sep). Dry, open, rocky or grassy slopes, chaparral, oak to pine or pine-fir woodlands; (50-)300-2300(-2900) m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).