Leaf blades 1.5-3 cm wide, surfaces glabrous. Bracts ovate to obovate, margins entire or sharply denticulate or with 2 or 3 shallow sinuses, apex acute. Flowers: sepals glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent, not stipitate-glandular; ovary glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent. 2n = 16. Flowering Apr-Aug. Dry habitats in conifer and oak woodlands; 500-1600 m; Idaho, Oreg., Wash.