serpentine; beset throughout with short glandular hairs & longer ones scantily intermixed; stems from a stout woody caudex, slender erect or ascending, to 8 inches high, simple monocephalous, or branched above & bearing 2 or 3 corymb or heads; radical leaves obovate, oblanceolate or spatulate, entire or with the edges somewhat repand or obsoletely serrate, blades 1 to 2 inches long, contracted into marginal petioles often of the same length 6 to 12 lines broad, conspicuously veined; upper cauline small, ovate scute & apiculate; heads 3 to 4 lines high; involucre granulose-glandular & slightly pubescent; bracts linear & acuminate; rays about 40, narrowly linear, purple; pappus simple. It partakes of the characters of its congeners E. leiomerus, E. ursinus, E. radicatus & E. glandulosus, epecially in the glandulosity of the latter, but is quite distinct from any of them. Type specimen in the U.S. National Herbarium; no. 810.