Subshrubs or shrubs, spreading to erect, sometimes round, 2-7 × 3-9(-12) dm. Aerial flowering stems erect, (0.5-)1-3 dm, floccose or glabrous, without one or more leaflike bracts ca. midlength. Leaves in rather loose rosettes; blade elliptic, 1-3 × 0.5-2 cm, thinly floccose on both surfaces or glabrous and green adaxially (glabrous on both surfaces in s Utah, rarely tomentose abaxially in se Utah), margins plane. Inflorescences compound-umbellate, branched 2-5 times; branches floccose or glabrous, without a whorl of bracts ca. midlength; involucral tubes 2-3(-3.5) mm, lobes 1-3 mm. Flowers 3-7 mm; perianth bright yellow.