Leaf blades 1-5 cm × 3-12 mm. Disc corollas ca. 4 mm. Cypselae ca. 3 mm; pappi 3-3.5 mm. 2n = 26. Flowering Jan-May. Sandy or gravelly soils, deserts; 0-700 m; Ariz., Calif., Nev.; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur).

Plant: Annual, short-lived perennial herb 5-25 cm, generally ± tomentose; stems 1-several from base Leaves: simple, basal and cauline, alternate or subopposite, mostly clustered in lower half of plant, 1-3 cm, sessile or tapered to a short, winged petiole; blade acute, sharply dentate or shallowly lobed, densely tomentose, resin-dotted INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads discoid, solitary; peduncles 3-11 cm, slender, bractless, glandular-puberulent; involucre 6-12 mm diam, hemispheric or bell-shaped, often appearing ± disk-like when pressed; phyllaries in 2 ± equal series, free, 5-7 mm, linear-elliptic, acute; receptacle rounded, naked Flowers: many; corollas 4.5-7 mm, yellow, outermost sometimes enlarged and ± bilateral; style-tips truncate Fruit: 2-3 mm, obpyramidal, glabrous to densely strigose; pappus of 5 scales, each 5-7 mm, dissected into many bristles Misc: Dry slopes, plains; < 1000 m.; Feb-May, Oct-Nov References: J.C. Hickman, ed. The Jepson Manual.W.B. McDougal. Seed plants of Northern Arizona. ASU specimens.