Shrubs, 50-150 cm. Stems with slender branches from bases, glabrous, developing smooth or roughened barks. Leaves cauline; petioles 5-25 mm; blades green, rhombic or narrowly ovate, 30-60 mm, apices acute, faces glabrous. Heads borne singly. Peduncles pubescent. Involucres 10-12 mm. Phyllaries lanceolate. Ray florets 15-25; corolla laminae 15-35 mm. Disc corollas brown-purple, 5-6 mm. Cypselae 5-7 mm; pappi 0. 2n = 36. Flowering Feb-Oct. Coastal scrub; 0-600 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Plant: Shrub 5-15 dm, with many slender branches from base; stems branched below; young stems glabrous; older stems with smooth or roughened bark Leaves: scattered along stems, alternate, generally drought-deciduous, simple, petioled; petioles 5-25 mm; blades 3-6 cm, diamond-shaped or narrowly ovate, acute, green, glabrous INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads radiate, solitary; peduncles hairy; involucre 10-12 mm; phyllaries lanceolate Flowers: Ray flowers sterile, 15-25; ligules 15-35 mm, yellow; style 0; Disk flowers: many; corollas 5-6 mm, brown-purple; tube slender, throat abruptly expanded, lobes triangular; anther tips ovate, ± acute; style tips triangular Fruit: 5-7 mm, strongly compressed, obovate or wedge-shaped; edges long-ciliate; faces glabrous or short-hairy; pappus 0 Misc: Coastal scrub; < 600 m.