Plants shrubs, spreading to erect, sparsely branched, 4–8 dm tall, 6–10 dm across; leaf blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1.5 cm long, 0.2–0.6 cm wide, mostly glabrous; inflorescences (5) 10–20 cm long, 5–8 cm wide, the branches open, with numerous racemosely arranged involucres, slender and whiplike, round, smooth, glabrous, not spinose; involucres campanulate, 1–1.5 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide; flowers 2.5–3 mm long, the perianth white, the tepals glabrous.

Branches open, with numerous racemosely arranged involucres, slender and whiplike, round, smooth, glabrous, not spinose.

Flowering Jun-Sep. Limestone gravelly to rocky flats, slopes, and washes, saltbush, blackbrush, or sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper and montane conifer woodlands; 1200–1900 m; Spring (or Charleston) Mountains and Sheep Range of Clark Co., disjunct to low limestone mountains around Mercury and in the Hiko Range, Lincoln Co. Nevada.

Shrubs, spreading to erect, sparsely branched, 40 to 80 cm tall, 60 to 100 cm across.