Picradeniopsis oppositifolia

Plants ± erect or spreading, 3-15(-20+) cm. Leaf lobes lanceolate to linear, 10-25+ × 1-3(-8) mm, faces ± canescent-scabrellous and gland-dotted. Involucres broadly turbinate to hemispheric, 5-6+ × 6-9+ mm. Ray florets 3-5(-6); corollas pale yellow, laminae 3-5 mm. Disc florets 30-60+; corollas 3.5-5 mm. Cypselae 3-5 mm, usually gland-dotted, seldom hirsutulous; pappus scales usually ovate or elliptic to obovate, sometimes lanceolate, 0.5-1.5 mm. 2n = 48.

Flowering Jun-Oct. Roadsides, saline flats, shale sites; 900-2500 m; Ariz., Colo., Kans., Mont., Nebr., N.Mex., N.Dak., Okla., S.Dak., Tex., Wyo.