Annuals, 1-5 cm. Stems ± spreading. Leaves: blades ± cuneate, 3-10 mm, usually 3-lobed, ultimate margins entire, strongly revolute (apices ± rounded), faces woolly. Heads borne singly or in clusters. Peduncles ± 0.1 cm. Involucres broadly campanulate to hemispheric, 3-5+ mm diam. Phyllaries 6-8, distinct. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 10-20; corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages deltate, tapering distally, not glandular). Cypselae 1.5-2 mm; pappi of 5-12 ± oblanceolate scales ± 1 mm. 2n = 14 + 0-1 B or 0-1 I, 16. Flowering Feb-Jul. Sandy or gravelly openings in desert, creosote-bush, or sagebrush scrublands, or chaparral; 300-2200 m; Ariz., Calif., Nev.; Mexico (Baja California).

Plant: Annual 1-8 cm, ± tufted-spreading, white-woolly Leaves: 3-10 mm, alternate, wedge-shaped, generally 3-lobed, very woolly; margins rolled under INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads discoid, ± sessile in leafy clusters at branch tips; involucre 3-6 mm, hemispheric; phyllaries 6-8, acuminate, free; receptacle convex Flowers: Ray flowers 0; Disk flowers 10-25; corollas ± 2 mm, yellow, minutely glandular; anther tips deltate Fruit: 1.5-2 mm, strigose, 4-angled or flattened in outer flowers, generally club-shaped in inner flowers; pappus ± 1 mm, 0-15 ± jagged or fringed scales Misc: Chaparral, sagebrush or desert scrub or woodlands; 300-2200 m.; Apr-Jun