Leaves hispidulous or strigose and often hirsute, all or distal densely stipitate-glandular. Heads in spi­ciform-racemiform to spiciform-paniculiform arrays. Peduncles 0 or 1-3 mm, bracts (and calyculi) surpassing phyllaries. Calyculi usually of 5-7, sometimes 0, bractlets. Phyllaries 6-12 mm, apices usually longer than bodies. Ray florets 5-8; laminae white, abaxially purple-veined. Cypsela widths 0.5-0.6 times lengths. 2n = 28.

Flowering Jul-Nov. Clay soils, grasslands, openings in woodlands; of conservation concern; 200-1400 m; Calif.

Subspecies calyculata occurs in the North Inner Coast Ranges and northern Sacramento Valley.