Plants shrubs, (3) 5–15 dm tall, 5–15 dm across; leaves cauline 1⁄2 or more length of flowering stem, the petioles 0.5–1.5 cm long, the blades broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, 1–3 (3.5) cm long and wide, floccose to tomentose on both surfaces or floccose adaxially; inflorescences compact and rather flat-topped, 3–10 cm long, the branches densely tomentose; involucres 2–3.5 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide; flowers 2.5–3 mm long, the perianth white, glabrous.

Flowering Aug-Oct. Sandy to gravelly flats, washes, slopes, mixed grassland, saltbush, blackbrush, and sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands; 900–1600 (2300) m; northeastern Arizona (Coconino and Navajo cos.), western Colorado (Mesa and San Miguel cos.), and southeastern Utah (Emery, Garfield, Grand, Kane, San Juan, and Wayne cos.).