Plants subshrubs or shrubs, spreading to erect, sometimes round, 2–7 dm tall, 3–9 (12) dm across; aerial flowering stems erect, (0.5) 1–3 dm long, floccose or glabrous, without one or more foliaceous bracts about midlength; leaves in rather loose rosettes, the blades elliptic, 1–3 cm long, 0.5–2 cm wide, thinly floccose on both surfaces or glabrous and green adaxially (glabrous on both surfaces in southern Utah, rarely tomentose abaxially in southeastern Utah), the margins plane; inflorescences compound-umbellate, branched 2–5 times, the branches floccose or glabrous, without a whorl of bracts about midlength; involucral tubes 2–3 (3.5) mm long, the lobes 1–3 mm long; flowers 3–7 mm long, the perianth bright yellow.

Flowering Jun-Oct. Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland, saltbush, and sagebrush communities, oak, pinyon-juniper, and montane conifer woodlands; 1200–3100 m; southern California (Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare and Ventura cos.), southern Nevada (Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye and White Pine cos.), and northern Arizona (Coconino, Mohave and Navajo cos.) to Utah (Beaver, Emery, Garfield, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch, Washington and Wayne cos.) and southwestern Colorado (La Plata and Montezuma cos.).

Inflorescences compound-umbellate, branched 2–5 times, the branches floccose or glabrous, without a whorl of bracts about midlength.

Leaves in rather loose rosettes, the blades elliptic, 1–3 cm long, 0.5–2 cm wide, thinly floccose on both surfaces or glabrous and green adaxially (glabrous on both surfaces in southern Utah, rarely tomentose abaxially in southeastern Utah), the margins plane.