Annuals, 2-15 cm. Stems spreading. Leaves: blades ± cuneate, ± 10 mm, usually 3-lobed, ultimate margins entire, plane (apices ± rounded), faces ± woolly. Heads borne singly or in clusters. Peduncles ± 0.1 cm. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric, 2-3+ mm diam. Phyllaries 5-7, distinct. Ray florets 5-7; laminae yellow, ± 2 mm. Disc florets 10-20; corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages narrowly deltate, not glandular). Cypselae ± 2 mm; pappi usually of 10-15 ± lanceolate scales ± 1 mm, rarely 0. 2n = 14. Flowering Mar-Jul. Sandy openings in chaparral or coastal scrublands; 0-1600 m; Calif.
Plant: Annual 2-15 cm, decumbent-ascending, green to purple, ± fleshy, often becoming glabrous Leaves: ± 1 cm, alternate, wedge-shaped, 2-3-lobed, ± woolly INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads 1-many, generally radiate, ± sessile in leafy clusters at branch tips; involucre 3-4 mm, bell-shaped to hemispheric; phyllaries 5-7, acute, free; receptacle convex Flowers: Ray flowers 5-7; ligules ± 2 mm, entire to lobed, generally yellow (white); Disk flowers 13-25; corollas ± 2 mm, yellow, throat minutely puberulent; anther tips deltate Fruit: Fruit: ± 2 mm, narrowly club-shaped, glabrous to minutely strigose; pappus ± 1 mm, 0-15 ± jagged or fringed scales Misc: Open coastal scrub, chaparral; < 1600 m.