Shrubs, 10–20(–50) dm, moderately branched, ?young stems, leaves, pedicels, and hypanthia sericeous or pilose-hirsute (hairs straight or crinkled, 0.7–1.2 mm)?. Stems: long-shoot internodes 10–25(–45) mm, sericeous to pilose-hirsute, soon glabrate; short shoots 2–25(–90) × 1.7–3 mm. Leaves winter-deciduous; stipules 1.8–3.5 mm; petiole (1.5–)2–5(–9) mm; blade ovate to broadly ovate, obovate to narrowly oblong-obovate, or oblanceolate, (6.5–)10–30(–63) × (6.5–)8–20(–29) mm, ± subcoriaceous (not stiff), base narrowly cuneate to rounded, margins rarely ± revolute proximally, dentate to crenate or serrate, ?teeth usually with convex margins?, apex rounded, abaxial surface sericeous or pilose on veins and veinlets, areoles canescent, adaxial sericeous, pilose, or villous. Flowers 1–3(–5) per short shoot; hypanthial tubes sericeous or villous to pilose; hypanthial cups 3–4 × 3–5 mm; sepals 5, oblong, 1(–2) mm, acute; stamens 25–45, anthers 0.8–1.2 mm, hirsute. Achenes 9.2–11 × 1.7–2.2 mm; fruiting pedicels (2.3–)3–9(–11) mm; hypanthial tubes (7–)8–12(–14) mm; pedicel/tube ratio 25–70(–98)%; fruit awns 4.5–6(–8.2) cm, proximal setae 2–2.5(–3) mm.
Dry rocky bluffs or mountainsides, 1,000-2,700 metres in Texas.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in hardiness zone 6-9.
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