Plants perennial. Stems erect, green or purple, (2–)6–10 dm, white-canescent or glabrate. Leaf blades green to gray-green or yellow-green, broadly triangular, 3-lobed or pedately divided, tips rounded or acute, 1.7–3.5(–9) cm, not rugose, base cordate to truncate, margins dentate or crenate, surfaces stellate-pubescent. Inflorescences paniculate, crowded, flowers solitary or clustered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets green to tan. Flowers: sepals 5–8 mm; petals red-orange, 8–15 mm; anthers yellow. Schizocarps truncate-conic to spheric; mericarps 10–12, 2.5–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, reticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, tip rounded-acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. Seeds 1(or 2) per mericarp, gray or black, glabrous or pubescent. 2n = 20.
Dry, volcanic, rocky or sandy soil, growing in salt desert shrub, shadscale and saltbush plant communities. It is also found in the drier portions of sagebrush and pinyon-juniper plant communities ; at elevations from 100-2,000 metres.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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