Plants 30-120 cm. Leaves cau-line; sessile; blades oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 2.5-13 cm, bases sagittate or clasping, margins dentate to denticulate, faces minutely stipitate-glandular and/or hirtellous (reticulate). Heads in corymbiform arrays. Involucres turbinate, 5-8 mm. Phyllaries in 2-3 series, linear to lanceolate, margins fimbrillate-glandular, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces glabrous or glandular-hairy. Receptacles reticulate (edges of sockets glandular). Florets 8-12; corollas pink or purple, 9-20 mm. Cypselae linear-fusiform, 2-6 mm, glandular-puberulent; pappi bright white, 9-12 mm. 2n = 54. Flowering Jun-Nov. Gravel, caliche, or sandy loamy soils in open desert (Lower Sonoran Desert); 400-1400 m; Ariz., N.Mex., Tex., Utah; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas).

Plant: Perennial forb 40-150 cm Leaves: leaves alternate, longer than wide Flowers: flowers purple, bilabiate. Notes: stems with tufts of brown wool at the base References: AZ Flora: Kearney and Peebles,Seed Plants of N. AZ: McDougall,ASU Specimens