Plants subshrubs or shrubs, 2–10 dm tall, 3–10 (15) dm across; leaves cauline 1⁄2 or more length of flowering stem, the petioles 0.5–1 cm long, the blades lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 1–4 cm long, 0.5–1.5 cm wide, usually densely tomentose abaxially, floccose or nearly glabrous and greenish adaxially; inflorescences 3–10 cm long, the branches tomentose to floccose; involucres 1–2 mm long, 1–1.5 (2) mm wide; flowers 1.5– 2.5 mm long, the perianth usually pale yellow to yellow, sometimes white, glabrous. 2n = 40.

Flowering Jul-Oct. Sandy to gravelly or clayey flats, washes, slopes, outcrops, and cliffs, saltbush, blackbrush, sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands; (800) 1200–2600 m; northern Arizona (Coconino, Mohave, Navajo, and Yavapai cos.) and southern Utah (Beaver, Emery, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Washington, and Wayne cos.).