Stems yellow-green. Phyllary margins herbaceous. Disc floret corollas loosely strigose proximally. Pappi scarious cups 0.1-0.4 mm plus 1 apically plumose bristle usually equaling disc corollas, rarely the bristle reduced or almost absent. 2n = 16. Flowering Mar-May. Sandy or gravelly flats, pinyon pine or pine-juniper woodlands; 700-1500 m; Ariz., Calif., Nev., Utah.

Plant: annual, generally prostrate; stems < 6 cm Leaves: 4-10 mm, alternate, often tufted below heads, entire, generally oblanceolate, obtuse INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads radiate, ± subsessile; involucre bell-shaped or hemispheric; phyllaries 4-4.5 mm Flowers: Ray flowers: many; corolla 5-7 mm; ligule 3-5 mm, white to purple, often dark-veined; Disk flowers: many; corollas 3-4.5 mm, yellow; style tips short-triangular Fruit: 1.5-2 mm, compressed, oblong to obovate, finely appressed-hairy, light brown; pappus a minute crown of fused scales 0.1-0.2 mm and 1 plume-tipped bristle 3-4 mm Misc: Sandy deserts, washes; 660-1000 m.; Mar-Jun