Ericameria parryi var. affinis (A.Nelson) G.L.Nesom & G.I.Baird

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.