Annuals, 10-90 cm. Stems usually proximally hispid, distally stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate, 30-90 × 3-20 mm. Involucres broadly to narrowly turbinate. Phyllaries 9-12+ × 1.5-3 mm, ± equal, ± scabrous to hispid and/or stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 3-5; corollas 15-25 mm, laminae 5-12 mm. Disc florets 15-35; corollas ± actinomorphic, 10-14 mm, throats ± funnelform, shorter than lobes. Cypselae 6-9 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 7-9 mm. 2n = 24. Flowering summer-fall. Sandy soils; 1000-1800 m; Colo., Kans., Nebr., N.Mex., Okla., Tex.; Mexico (Chihuahua).