Perennials, 5-30 cm (usually forming dense colonies); rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, sometimes with branching caudices. Stems pro-cumbent to decumbent-ascending, hirsuto-villous or nearly glabrous, usually minutely glandular. Leaves basal (usually persistent) and cauline; basal blades broadly obovate to spatulate, 20-130(-150) × 10-30(-50) mm, cauline little reduced distally (fleshy, bases sometimes subclasping), margins entire or with 2-4 pairs of shallow teeth, faces glabrous or hirsute, eglandular. Heads 1-15. Involucres 7-13 × 15-35 mm. Phyllaries in 3-4 series, sparsely to densely villous (cross walls not colored), minutely glandular. Ray florets 80-165; corollas white to purple or blue, 8-15 mm, laminae coiling. Disc corollas 4.5-5.5 mm. Cypselae 1.8-2.4 mm, 2-4(-6)-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 20-30 bristles. 2n = 18.

Flowering (Mar-)May-Jul(-Dec). Coastal bluffs, dunes, and beaches; 0-30 m; Calif., Oreg.