Plants 6-30 cm; setae yellowish, usually ± straight, sometimes bent (ca. 1 mm). Stems (stout, branched proximally) setose (setae yellowish). Leaves: petioles setose; blades 10-15 × 3-4 cm (margins pinnately lobed, lobes dentate). Heads 1-6. Involucres 13-21 mm. Phyllaries sparsely setose (setae blackish) or glabrous. Cypselae blackish to brownish or dark reddish, slightly narrowed, not beaked (ribs strong); pappi 9-13 mm.

Flowering May-Jul. Wet meadows, steep slopes; 1800-2100 m; Calif., Mont., Nev., Oreg.