Leaves hirsute to villous and often hispidulous or strigose, all or distal usually stipitate-glandular. Heads in spiciform-racemiform to spiciform-paniculiform arrays. Peduncles 0 or 1-4 mm, bracts not or barely surpassing phyllaries. Calyculi 0. Phyllaries 3-7 mm, apices usually shorter than bodies. Ray florets 5-8; laminae white, abaxially purple-veined. Cypsela widths 0.6-0.75 times lengths. 2n = 28.

Flowering Jun-Nov. Dry sites, grasslands, openings in chaparral and woodlands; 40-1600 m; Calif., Oreg.

Subspecies clevelandii occurs in interior habitats from southern North Coast Ranges in California to northern Klamath Ranges in southwestern Oregon.