Leaves: petioles 0-20+ mm; blades or lobes mostly 20-150 × 1-1.5(-3) mm. Peduncles 1-3+ mm. Involucres 2-3+ mm. Phyllaries: outer 5-7 ± herbaceous, sericeous to strigillose, inner scarious to membranous, usually villous. Functionally staminate florets: corollas 2.5-3 mm. Paleae 1.8-2+ mm. Cypselae 1.5-2.5 mm. 2n = 36. Flowering Jun-Sep. Wet or seasonally wet, alkaline soils; 100-2200 m; Ariz., Calif., Colo., Nev., N.Mex., Utah.

Plant: Shrub 1-2 m, sometimes appearing bush-like; stems ± green Leaves: 5-15 cm, opposite below, ± alternate above, ± thick, ± linear, entire to pinnately linear-lobed, finely canescent INFLORESCENCE: heads many, disciform, erect, in panicle-like cluster; involucre 3-4 mm; phyllaries free; chaff scales ± cut, tips ± wider Flowers: Pistillate flowers: corolla 0; Staminate flowers 5-20; corolla translucent; anthers free, yellow; style tip truncate or tack-shaped Fruit: achenes, plump, densely long-soft-hairy, obovate, ± compressed; pappus 0 Misc: Saline soils; < 700 m.; Aug-Dec