Plants 2.5–4 dm wide; leaf blades usually elliptic to spatulate or oblong, (1) 3–6 cm long, tomentose to floccose, the margins rarely brownish; scapes erect, (4) 5–20 cm long, thinly tomentose; inflorescences capitate, 1–3.5 cm wide, the branches absent; involucres 3–15 per cluster, 4–5 (6.5) mm long; flowers 4–5 mm long, the perianth yellow. 2n = 40. Flowering Apr-Aug. Sandy to gravelly flats, washes, slopes, and ridges, mixed grassland, saltbush, and sagebrush communities, pinyon and/or juniper and montane conifer woodlands; 600–2600 m.