Perennials, 1.5-7 cm (cespitose); taprooted, caudices multicipital or branches relatively short and thick. Stems erect (greenish), sparsely and closely strigose, eglandular. Leaves mostly basal (persistent, petioles ² / 3 - ³ / 4 leaf lengths); blades (greenish) narrowly oblanceolate to oblanceolate-spatulate, (5-)10-40 × 2-4 mm, margins entire (apices rounded to obtuse), faces sparsely strigose, eglandular. Heads 1(-2). Involucres 3-5 × 5-8 mm. Phyllaries in 2-3 series (often purplish), sparsely to moderately hirsute, sparsely to moderately minutely glandular (medially and near apices). Ray florets 10-20(-25); corollas white or light pink, 5-6 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 2.4-3.4 mm. Cypselae 1.5-1.8 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 12-20 bristles. 2n = 18.

Flowering May-Jul. Crevices, ledges, and erosion pockets in limestone cliffs, Douglas fir, aspen, mountain brush; of conservation concern; 1600-3000 m; Utah.