Shrubs, 10-80 cm. Stems 1-5+, erect, unarmed, pannose but for floccose or glabrescent streaks. Leaves: primaries lanceolate to spatulate, 5-40 (× 2-6) mm, tomentose to sericeous; secondaries similar, smaller. Heads 3-8. Peduncles 5-25 mm. Involucres turbinate to cylindric, 6-12 mm. Phyllaries 4, oblong to lanceolate. Florets 4; corollas cream to bright yellow, 7-15 mm. Cypselae 3-5 mm, glabrous or hirsute; pappi of 100-150 bristles 6-11 mm. 2n = 60, 62, 90, 120. Flowering spring-fall. Sagebrush scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands, yellow-pine forests; 400-3300 m; B.C.; Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Plant: shrub, 1-8 dm, unarmed; stems unevenly tomentose, becoming ± glabrous in stripes below nodes Leaves: alternate and generally clustered in axils; main leaves < 4 cm, ± (ob)lanceolate, sparsely tomentose to silvery; clustered leaves like (generally <) main leaves INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads discoid, generally 3-6 in flat-topped clusters; peduncles 5-15(25) mm, bracts 0; involucre 6-8(12) mm, cylindric to obconic; phyllaries 4, oblong to ovate; receptacle naked Flowers: 4; corollas 7-15 mm, creamy to bright yellow, lobes long, spreading; anther bases ± sagittate, tips obtuse or acute; style branches papillate to short-bristly, tips truncate to conic Fruit: achenes, 2.5-5 mm, glabrous or short-stiff-hairy, obconic or fusiform, often angled; pappus of many fine bristles, 6-11 mm Misc: Sagebrush scrub, pinyon/juniper woodland, forest; (400)1600-3300 m.; Jul-Aug