Townsendia mensana

Perennials, 1-3 cm (± pulvinate). Stems ± erect; internodes 0.1-1 mm, ± pilose. Leaves basal and cauline, blades narrowly oblanceolate to lance-linear, 5-40+ × 0.6-2.5+ mm, not fleshy, faces ± strigoso-sericeous to strigose. Heads ± sessile. Involucres ± campanulate, 7-10 mm diam. Phyllaries 25-50+ in 4-5+ series, the longer narrowly lanceolate, 6-8+ mm (l/w = 5-6), apices acute, abaxial faces sparsely strigillose or glabrate. Ray florets 13-21+; corollas white adaxially, laminae 4-8+ mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially. Disc florets 40-60+; corollas (3.5-)4.5-6 mm. Cypselae 3-3.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform; pappi persistent; on ray cypselae 15-35 subulate to setiform scales 0.5-1.5 or 4-5 mm; on disc cypselae 15-35 subulate to setiform scales 4-6.5 mm.

Flowering May. Openings with junipers and pinyons; of conservation concern; 1700-2700 m; Utah.