Plants 15-45+ cm. Stems proximally piloso-hirsute (hairs 1-3+ mm) and stipitate-glandular, distally piloso-hirsute (hairs 1-2+ mm) and stipitate-glandular. Leaves: basal (0-)3-5, cauline 2-3(-8); blades lance-elliptic to lanceolate, 30-80(-100) × (3-)10-20(-30+) mm, lengths 3-8(-10+) times widths, bases cuneate, margins usually entire, sometimes denticulate, apices obtuse to acute, faces usually piloso-hirsute (hairs 1-3+ mm), sometimes glabrate. Heads (1-)3-12+ in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles densely stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 7-9+. Involucres campanulate, 10-12 mm. Phyllaries 13-21+, apices ± acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular. Florets 30-60+; corollas yellow, 9-11 mm. Cypselae columnar, 2.5-3 mm; pappi of 50-60+, white bristles in ± 2 series, ca. 5 mm.

Flowering Jun-Jul. Openings in brush, grassy slopes, serpentines; 10-2000 m; Calif., Oreg.