Leaves without prominent 1-directional orientation; blades 20-40 × 2-4 mm wide, apices acute to obtuse, faces glabrous or glabrate (margins and midveins ascending-ciliate). Phyllaries 0.8-1 mm wide, margins usually broadly scarious, midnerves usually not distinct and orange-resinous, abaxial faces moderately to densely strigoso-hirsute, densely, prominently glandular; inner phyllaries 5-6.5 mm. Ray florets 25-48; corollas 10-15 mm. Disc corollas 3.8-5 mm.

Flowering May-Aug. Bars, banks, and ledges along rivers, dry slopes; of conservation concern; 30-800 m; Calif.