Ericameria parryi var. imula (H.M.Hall & Clem.) G.L.Nesom & G.I.Baird

Plants 10–20 cm. Leaves crowded, gray; blades 1-nerved, spatulate to linear-spatulate, 10–15 × 2–3 mm, faces densely tomentose, eglandu-lar ; distalmost not overtopping arrays. Heads usually 3–5 in ± racemiform arrays. Involucres 10–12 mm. Phyllaries ca. 16, chartaceous, apices erect (outer sometimes herbaceous, reddish), abruptly acute. Florets 10–18; corollas 10–12 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely villous, throats ± abruptly dilated, lobes 1.4–1.5 mm. 2n = 18.