Shrubs, 30-100 cm. Stems sparsely short-hispidulous. Leaves sessile; blades obovate to oblong, 15-25 × 5-12 mm, coriaceous, bases subclasping, margins coarsely spinulose-dentate or -serrate (with 5-11 pairs of teeth), faces glabrous. Heads in densely spiciform arrays. Involucres cuneate to very narrowly turbinate, 10-17 × 3-6 mm. Phyllaries stiffly erect, almost completely stramineous, linear-lanceolate, faces glabrous except minutely gland-dotted at tips. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 4-8(-10); corollas 7-9 mm. Cypselae 5-8 mm, glabrous. 2n = 10.

Flowering Sep-Nov. Oak-pine woods; 150-2000 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Hazardia stenolepis is distinguished by its hairy stems, glabrous, relatively small leaves, discoid heads, and long, narrow involucres with stramineous, linear-lanceolate phyllaries.