Perennials or subshrubs, 6-17(-23) cm (densely clumped, stems leafy); usually densely pilose to villous, sometimes glabrate. Leaves (opposite or alternate): petioles 3-8(-10) mm (usually shorter than blades); blades ovate to ovate-deltate (margins crenate, lacerate, laciniate, or serrate), or 3-5-lobed or pinnately divided (lobes crenate, lacerate, laciniate, lobed, or serrate), 6-18 × 7-20 mm. Heads borne singly or (2-3) in corymbiform arrays (often obscured by leaves), 7-10 × 5-9 mm. Peduncles 1-5(-10) mm. Involucres campanulate. Phyllaries 10-16, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, to oblanceolate, 4-6.4(-8) × 1-1.7 mm (apices acute). Ray florets 0. Disc florets 20-40; corollas yellow, often tinged with purple, tubes 1-1.9 mm, throats broadly tubular to subfunnelform, 2-2.5(-2.9) mm, lobes 0.4-0.6 mm. Cypselae narrowly oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, 2.5-3.2(-3.6) mm, margins thin-calloused, short-hairy; pappi usually of 1(-2) delicate bristles 1-3(-4) mm, rarely plus vestigial, hyaline scales, sometimes 0. Flowering spring-fall. Crevices of granitic boulders and cliffs; 600-2300 m.

Santa Catalina Mountains
Windy Point
Location: Just around end of sidewalk to left of bathrooms in rock crevice.
9/15/16

Notes: Prison Camp rock face beside trail near waterfall 5/10/17

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