Plant: subshrub; 1-2 m tall, the stems stellate-pubescent to glabrate Leaves: highly variable in form, often narrowly oblong-linear, hastately toothed to entire, coriaceous, tomentulose, markedly discolorous INFLORESCENCE: a lax panicle Flowers: calyx 3-5 mm long; petals yellow (sometimes fading reddish), ca. 1 cm long; staminal column ca. 3 mm long, scabrid to glabrous; styles 5-8 Fruit: FRUITS a schizocarp, oblate, puberulent; mericarps 5-8, dorsally spurred; SEEDS ca. 2 mm long, endocarp not developed Misc: In open, well-drained habitats; 1400-1700 m (4500-5500 ft); Aug-Nov REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236.