Plants subshrubs, 0.5–1.5 dm tall, 1–3 dm across; stems lacking a caudex or caudex sometimes spreading, the aerial flowering stems 0.2–0.6 dm long, tomentose to floccose; leaf blades elliptic, 0.3–0.7 (0.8) cm long, 0.1– 0.4 cm wide, densely reddish-brown-tomentose abaxially, tomentose to floccose adaxially, the margins not revolute; inflorescences 2–6 cm long, the branches tomentose to floccose; involucres 2.5–3.5 mm long, floccose to subglabrous; flowers (1.5) 2–3.5 mm long, the perianth whitish-red to pink, rose, or orange; achenes 2.5–3 mm long.

Involucres 2.5–3.5 mm long, floccose to subglabrous.

Plants subshrubs, 0.5–1.5 dm tall, 1–3 dm across.

Flowering Jul-Sep. Gravelly to rocky volcanic or sandstone outcrops, sagebrush communities, pinyon- juniper woodlands; 2600–3100 m; infrequent in the southern mountains of the Great Basin from Inyo Co., California, east across central Nevada (Clark, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, and White Pine cos.) to western Utah (Juab and Millard cos.).

Plants subshrubs, 0.5–1.5 dm tall, 1–3 dm across.