Plants herbs, spreading to prostrate mats, 1–4.5 (5) dm tall, 4–7 dm across; aerial flowering stems erect, 1–2.5 (4) dm long, floccose, without one or more foliaceous bracts about midlength; leaves in mostly loose rosettes, the blades elliptic to ovate, 0.5–2 (3.5) cm long, 0.5–1 (1.5) cm wide, densely lanate abaxially, tomentose to rarely floccose adaxially, the margins plane; inflorescences umbellate, the branches (2.5) 3–5 (8) cm long, floccose, without a whorl of bracts about midlength; involucral tubes 2–3 mm long, the lobes 2.5–4 mm long; flowers 6–8 (9) mm long, the perianth bright yellow.

Rough and Ready Botanical Area, Josephine county, Oregon. June 24 th 2014.

Flowering May-Sep. Sandy to gravelly serpentine flats and slopes, mixed grassland communities, oak and montane conifer woodlands; 400–1700 (2100) m; Benton, Deschutes, Douglas and Josephine cos., Oregon, and Del Norte, Humboldt, and Siskiyou cos., California.

The blades densely lanate abaxially.

On serpentine rocks on the Happy Camp Road, Josephine county, Oregon. June 24 th 2014.