Perennials, 4–23(–33) cm; tap-rooted, caudices simple or branched. Stems erect to ascending or decumbent, strigose, rarely hirtellous, sometimes minutely glandular. Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline; basal blades (3-nerved) linear to oblanceolate, 50–110(–190) × (1–)2–8(–13) mm, cauline gradually reduced distally, margins entire, faces loosely strigose to sparsely hirsuto-villous, eglandular. Heads 1–4(–7). Involucres 4.5–8 × 8–14(–17) mm (7–11 × 17–23 mm in var. nevadincola). Phyllaries in 2–3(–4) series, hirsutulous to villous, sometimes minutely glandular. Ray florets 16–42; corollas white or pink to bluish or purple, 5–8(–9) mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 2.5–5 mm (–6.8 mm in var. nevadincola). Cypselae 1.7–3.5 mm (–4.5 mm in var. nevadincola), 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 12–30 bristles.
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