Plants herbs, compact mats, 1–2.5 (3) dm tall, 3–8 dm across; aerial flowering stems erect, 1–2 dm long, glabrous, without one or more foliaceous bracts about midlength; leaves in loose rosettes, the blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 1–2 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, glabrous and green on both surfaces, the margins plane; inflorescences umbellate, the branches 3–8 cm long, glabrous, with a whorl of bracts about midlength; involucral tubes 4–5 mm long, the lobes 1–3.5 (4) mm long; flowers 4–7 mm long, the perianth cream or whitish.

Flowering Jul-Sep. Sandy to gravelly slopes, sagebrush communities, aspen and montane conifer woodlands; 1600–2300 m; Warner Mountains of Lake Co., Oregon, and Modoc Co., California, disjunct in Jackson Co., Oregon.

These pictures have been taken, on August 6th 2010, on Grizzly Peak close to Ashland in Oregon.