Leaf blades mostly 9-30+ × 1-2(-5+) mm. Peduncles often wiry, ± hirsutulous to pilosulous near heads. Involucres 4-7+ mm. Ray corollas: tubes 1.5-2+ mm, laminae narrowly elliptic, 0.3-1 mm. Disc corollas: tubes 0.2-0.4 mm, throats 1-1.5 mm, lobes 0.1-0.3 mm. Cypselae 4-5 mm; pappi 1-4+ mm or much reduced (rays). 2n = 18.

Flowering Apr-Jul. Grassy sites, chaparral, pine forests, sagebrush scrub; 100-1600(-2300) m; Calif., Idaho, Nev., Oreg., Wash.