Herbage glabrous or villlous, sometimes stipitate-glandular, not resinous. Leaf blades obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate to nearly linear, 5-40 mm, margins entire or toothed to lobed. Involucres (6-)7-9 × 6-8 mm. Phyllary apices green to yellowish, not aristate, sometimes with weakly developed, non- or weakly spinulose projection, gland-dotted, without resin pockets or pockets small, weakly developed (var. decumbens and var. menziesii). Florets (15-)18-25(-28); corollas 5-7 mm. Cypsela ribs not forming apical horns.