Plants (10-)25-40(-70+) cm. Stems usually strictly erect. Leaves mostly 10-25(-40) mm; blades linear or lobed (lobes 3-7+, linear to filiform), faces scaberulous (hairs ± conic, 0.1 mm) and gland-dotted. Peduncles mostly (3-)8-25(-30+) mm. Involucres obconic or obpyramidal, 4-6+ mm (each often subtended by 1-3, lanceolate bractlets). Phyllaries 4-6, green to purple, weakly carinate, oblanceolate to obovate, gland-dotted, otherwise usually glabrous. Ray florets usually 1(-2), sometimes 0; corollas yellow to white, laminae 0.8-1.2+ mm. Disc florets 2-6(-8+); corollas yellow (sometimes with purple), 1.5-2 mm. Cypselae blackish to buff, 3-4 mm, hirsutulous to villous, especially on angles; pappi of 8 white to tawny or purplish, obovate-rounded or elliptic to lanceolate scales 1-2.5 mm (sometimes some or all ± aristate). 2n = 20, 22, 40. Flowering Sep-Oct. Roadsides, pastures, wooded slopes; 1500-2100 m; Ariz., N.Mex., Tex.; Mexico; Central America; South America. Schkuhria pinnata has been noted as persisting after plantings in Maine. Schkuhria pinnata (Lamarck) Kuntze var. wislizeni (A. Gray) B. L. Turner is a superfluous, illegitimate, name intended to refer to North American plants of S. pinnata.