Plant: Annual 2-10 cm, ± decumbent Leaves: alternate (or lowest opposite), simple, 5-20 mm, wedge-shaped below, spoon-shaped above, 3-lobed (margins rolled under) or entire INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads solitary, radiate; peduncles 3-25 mm; involucre 5-7 mm, subcylindric; phyllaries generally 5, spreading in fruit, oblanceolate, acute, alternate phyllaries scarious-margined; receptacle convex, naked Flowers: Ray flowers 1 per phyllary; ligules 3-5 mm, yellow, 3-lobed; Disk flowers narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow, glabrous; stamen tips narrowly triangular Fruit: 2-3.5 mm, narrowly obconic, strigose; pappus of 30-40 bristles, ± 2 mm Misc: Open, sandy to gravelly areas; 600-2500 m.; Apr-Jun