Leaves without prominent 1-directional orientation; blades 20-40 × 2-4 mm, apices mostly obtuse to rounded, faces sparsely to moderately strigose. Phyllaries 0.8-1 mm wide, margins usually broadly scarious, midnerves prominent, raised, orange-resinous, abaxial faces moderately to densely strigoso-hirsute, densely, prominently glandular; inner phyllaries (4-)5-6 mm. Ray florets 28-48; corollas 7-10 mm. Disc corollas 4.5-5 mm. Flowering May-Oct. Grassy dunes, chaparral, oak woodlands; 0-800 m; Calif.