Plants 10-100(-150) cm (weakly self-incompatible); branching excurrent, distal stems usually sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular, rarely eglandular. Leaves: blades green or gray-green, distal stipitate-glandular, glands yellow or golden. Heads in paniculiform arrays. Calyculi of 3-5 bractlets. Involucres obconic. Phyllaries 5-7 mm, hirtellous to piloso-hirsute on angles, hairs ± patent to antrorsely curved, 0.3-1+ mm. Ray laminae 7-13 mm. Cypselae glossy. 2n = 14.

Flowering May-Nov. Grasslands, openings in chaparral and woodlands; 10-900 m; Calif.

Lagophylla glandulosa comprises spring and summer-fall flowering populations that occur widely in the northern Great Valley and surrounding foothills of the North Inner Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, and Sierra Nevada.