Perennials or subshrubs, (20–)30–60(–80) cm (woody crowns and woody rhizomes). Stems erect (brittle), minutely puberulent. Leaves opposite; petioles 10–25 mm; blades triangular to lanceolate-ovate or ovate, 2–5(–7) × 1.5–3.5(–4.5) cm, bases truncate to shallowly cordate, margins dentate to serrate-dentate, abaxial faces sparsely hispidulous to glabrate, eglandular. Heads clustered. Peduncles 4–15 mm, puberulent. Involucres 4–5 mm. Phyllaries: apices acute, abaxial faces granular-puberulent. Corollas white, glabrous. Cypselae finely strigose-hispidulous. 2n = 34.
Pine, Pine-Oak, Pinyon-Juniper woodlands, rocks along streams, slopes, ridges and washes; at elevations of 1,400-2,700 metres.
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