Stems often purple proximally. Leaves (3-)6-15 cm, sometimes slightly succulent, clasping or sub-clasping, less commonly non-clasping, relatively unreduced to arrays, distal sometimes grading into phyllaries. Ray corollas 6-10 mm. Disc corollas 7-9 mm, lobes spreading. 2n = 18. Flowering Jul-Sep. Moist to dry meadows and roadsides, wooded slopes, often in partially shaded understory; 2400-3800 m; Ariz., Colo., Nev., N.Mex., Utah, Wyo.; Mexico (Chihuahua). Oreochrysum parryi was noted by A. Cronquist (1994, p. 244) to occur in 'the Ruby Mts. of Elko Co., Nevada, in a glandular-puberulent, perhaps varietally separable phase.' (Chihuahua-collected by C. G. Pringle from a single locality; it has never been recollected.)