Plants 15–60 cm. Leaves crowded, greenish yellow; blades 1-nerved, linear, 25–40 × 1–3 mm, faces tomentulose, eglandular; distalmost shorter than arrays. Heads 5–10+ in racemiform arrays. Involucres 10.5–13 mm. Phyllaries 12–15, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, otherwise chartaceous, apices erect (tan or greenish), attenuate. Florets 5–8; corollas pale yellow, 8–9.1 mm, tubes glabrous or puberulent, throats abruptly dilated, lobes 0.7–1 mm.

Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Mountain slopes, clay or gravelly soils
Elevation: 1600–2500 m

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Utah.

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.