Plants herbs, erect, (1.5) 2.5–4.5 (5) dm tall, 1–2 dm across, glabrous; stems with caudex absent or nearly so, the aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, arising at nodes of caudex branches and at distal nodes of short, nonflowering aerial branches, 1–4 dm long, essentially glabrous; leaves basal, occasionally in rosettes, the petioles 1–4 (7) cm long, pilose, the blades elliptic-obovate to round-ovate, 1–3 (3.5) cm long, 0.8–2.5 cm wide, pilose, the margins entire, plane; inflorescences capitate, 2–3.5 (4) cm wide, the branches absent, the bracts 5–8, essentially scalelike, 1–8 mm long, 1–3 mm wide; involucres 2–5 or more per cluster, campanulate, 6–8 mm long and wide, pilose, the teeth 5–8, erect to slightly spreading, 1–2 mm long; flowers 3–6 mm long, including a 0.1–0.2 mm long stipelike base, the perianth cream to pale yellow, sparsely pubescent abaxially, the tepals monomorphic, obovate to spatulate, the stamens exserted, 3–7 mm long, the filaments pilose proximally; achenes light brown, 3–5 mm long, glabrous.

These pictures were taken,  on July 10 th 2014, in the White Mountains of Mono County, California.

Flowering Jun-Aug. Sandy to gravelly granitic slopes and ridges, sagebrush communities, montane to subalpine conifer woodlands; 2600–3400 m; White Mountains of western Nevada (Esmeralda Co.), along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in California (Inyo and Mono cos.), and disjunct on Waucoba Mountain in the Inyo Mountains.

Flowering Jun-Aug. Sandy to gravelly granitic slopes and ridges, sagebrush communities, montane to subalpine conifer woodlands; 2600–3400 m; White Mountains of western Nevada (Esmeralda Co.), along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in California (Inyo and Mono cos.), and disjunct on Waucoba Mountain in the Inyo Mountains.