Biennials (sometimes flowering first year or persisting), 10-30(-60+) cm. Leaf blades ovate or rounded-deltate to elliptic, 30-80(-120+) × 10-20(-40+) mm, usually ± pinnately or sub-bipinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire, faces strigillose, usually also with erect hairs 1-2 mm and gland-dotted. Heads disciform or obscurely radiate, borne in open, ± paniculiform arrays. Peduncles 2-8(-12+) mm. Phyllaries: outer 5 lance-ovate to elliptic, 2.5-3+ mm, inner 5 ± orbiculate, 3-3.5 mm. Pistillate florets 5; corolla laminae 0 or ± coroniform, 0.1-0.5 mm. Disc florets 20-30+. Cypselae ± obovoid, 2-3 mm; pappus-like enations 2, ± erect, deltate to ovate, 0.5-1 mm (sometimes a third, subulate spur near apex adaxially). 2n = 36, 68, 72. Flowering Mar-Oct. Sandy plains, openings in mesquite grasslands; 20-2000 m; Ariz., N.Mex., Tex.; Mexico.