Shrubs, 60-250 cm. Stems lanate-tomentose. Leaves subsessile or subpetiolate; blades oblanceolate, 4-12 × 1-4 cm, thin, bases not clasping, margins serrulate to subentire, abaxial faces densely short-tomentose, adaxial glabrate or glabrescent. Heads in thyrsiform arrays. Involucres broadly turbinate, 7-10 × 5-8 mm. Phyllaries erect, oblong, apices acute, faces of outer loosely woolly-tufted apically. Ray florets 6-14, fertile; corollas shorter than involucre, inconspicuous. Disc florets 15-25; corollas 5-8 mm. Cypselae 3-4 mm, canescent. 2n = 10.

Flowering Jun-Sep. Rocky canyon walls; 200-500 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Hazardia cana is known from San Clemente Island.