Annuals (rarely persisting), 4-15 cm; glandular-pubescent, weakly tomentose, furfuraceous. Stems erect and spreading, much branched. Leaf blades rounded-deltate to reniform, 4-18 × 6-26 mm, margins of some or all toothed. Peduncles 1-28 mm. Involucres turbinate, 6-9 mm. Phyllaries 13-19, outer falling or persistent, 5-6, lanceolate to lance-linear, tips erect, inner falling, 8-13, lance-linear, tips erect. Florets 10-21; corollas yellow, often purplish at tips, 4-5 mm. Cypselae 2-3 mm; pappi of 35-50, subequal bristles in 1 series, 1-4 mm. 2n = 34. Flowering spring-fall. Alkaline soils of washes and playas; 800-2000 m; Ariz., Calif., Idaho, Nev., Utah.

Plant: Annual to low, dense subshrub, much-branched, ± hairy and scaly; odor turpentine-like; stems often purplish Leaves: alternate, hairy, short-petioled; blade 8-16 mm, ± ovate to reniform, generally ± toothed upward, (gray-)green INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads discoid, peduncled in axils; involucre ± obconic; outer phyllaries 4-5 mm, erect; inner phyllaries generally 8 or 13; receptacle flat, naked Flowers: 13-16; corollas 4-4.5 mm, cylindric, glandular, ± soft-hairy; anther bases ± sagittate, tips acute to blunt; style branches ± shaggy-papillate, ± truncate or with tapered appendage Fruit: achenes, ± 2.5 mm, cylindric to obconic, weakly 10-ribbed; pappus bristles 35-50 in 1 series, coarse, red-brown Misc: Dry, sandy shadscale scrub, alkaline flats; generally 800-2000 m.; Jun-Oct