Pericome caudata A.Gray

Stems striate, terete, glabrous or hairy, often densely puberulent to tomentulose distally, sometimes gland-dotted. Leaves: petioles (5–)10–45 mm; blades (2–)3.5–12(–15) × 1–12 cm. Heads 3–30+, usually tightly clustered. Peduncles 0.5–4 cm. Involucres 4.5–10 × 4–10 mm. Phyllaries 0.5–1 mm wide, apices attenuate. Disc corollas: tubes 1–3.5 mm, throats 2–5.5 mm, lobes 0.5–1 mm. Cypselae 3–5 mm; pappi crowns to ca. 1 mm plus 0–2 bristles 1–4.5 mm. 2n = 36.

Among rocks, boulders, on talus slopes, bluffs, crags, canyons, disturbed roadsides, in volcanic, limestone, and sandstone substrates at elevations of 1400-3300 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.