Leaves usually puberulent, hispid-ulous, or strigillose and often eglandular throughout, distal rarely villous and glandular. Heads in paniculiform arrays. Peduncles 0 or 1-18 mm, bracts not surpassing phyllaries. Calyculi 0. Phyllaries 3-10.5 mm, apices usually slightly shorter than bodies. Ray florets 5-8(-13); laminae white, not purple-veined. Cypsela widths 0.5-0.63 times lengths. 2n = 28.

Flowering May-Nov. Grassy slopes, valleys, stream banks, openings in woodlands, forests, or chaparral; of conservation concern; 0-1200 m; Calif.

Subspecies tracyi occurs in the north and central North Coast Ranges and on the outer North Coast.