Plants 20-60(-100) cm. Stems erect, usually distally branched (densely glandular distally). Cauline leaves: blades ± deltate to ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 7-20 cm, bases broadly cuneate to truncate or shallowly cordate, margins usually entire, rarely irregularly crenate, faces piloso-hispid or hirtellous (usually gland-dotted or stipitate-glandular as well). Heads usually held beyond leaves. Involucres ± hemispheric, 20-30 mm diam. Outer phyllaries linear‑triangular to lanceolate, 18-25(-30+) mm (equaling or slightly surpassing discs). Ray florets 0 or 2-3, laminae 6-10 mm. Cypselae 7-8 mm, glabrous (apices developing knoblike projections on angles); pappi 0.

Flowering Jun-Jul. Openings in chaparral and in pine and oak forests; (600-)1100-1900(-2300) m; Calif.

Agnorhiza invenusta is known only from the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.