Herbs, erect, perennial, occasion-ally flowering first year, 1-10(-15) dm, glabrous, usually glaucous, grayish. Stems: caudex compact; aerial flowering stems erect, solid or hollow and fistulose, (0.2-)2-5 dm, glabrous, usually glaucous, occasionally hirsute proximally. Leaves basal; petiole 2-6 cm, hirsute; blade oblong-ovate to oblong or rounded to reniform, (0.5-)1-2.5(-3) × (0.5-)1-2(-2.5) cm, short-hirsute and grayish or greenish on both surfaces, sometimes less so or glabrous and green adaxially, margins occasionally undulate. Inflorescences cymose, open, spreading to erect, 5-70 × 5-50 cm; branches occasionally fistulose, glabrous, usually glaucous; bracts 3, scalelike, 1-2.5(-5) × 1-2.5 mm. Peduncles erect, straight, filiform to capillary, 0.5-2(-3.5) cm, glabrous. Involucres turbinate, 1-1.5 × 1-1.8 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.6 mm. Flowers (1-)2-3(-4) mm; perianth yellow with greenish or reddish midribs, densely hirsute with coarse curved hairs; tepals monomorphic, narrowly ovoid to ovate; stamens exserted, 1.3-2.5 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pubescent proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, lenticular to 3-gonous, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 32.
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A herb. The stem is inflated. It grows 30-90 cm tall. There is a ring of round crinkled leaves at the base. The flowers are very small and yellow and pink.
Sandy to gravelly washes, flats, and slopes, mixed grassland, saltbush, creosote bush, mesquite, and sagebrush communities, pinyon and/or juniper woodlands at elevations of-30-1800 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in arid places.
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