Annuals, 3-15 cm. Stems decumbent to ascending. Leaves: blades oblanceolate to linear, 5-20 mm, rarely lobed, ultimate margins, usually entire, plane (apices acute), faces sparsely woolly. Heads borne singly. Peduncles 1-5 cm. Involucres campanulate to obconic, 3-5 mm diam. Phyllaries 8-10, distinct. Ray florets 8-10; laminae white with red veins, 3-5 mm. Disc florets 10-20; corollas 2-3 mm (tubes cylindric, throats funnelform, gradually dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages subulate, not glandular). Cypselae 2.5-4.5 mm; pappi of 5 subulate scales 1.5-2.5 mm plus 4-5 oblong scales ± 0.5 mm. 2n = 8. Flowering Feb-May. Sandy or gravelly openings, desert scrublands; 70-1400 m; Ariz., Calif., Nev., N.Mex., Utah; Mexico (Baja California).

Notes: Herbage copiously wooly; achenes glabrous to sparsely strigose References: ASU specimens