Clumps have stems 2–10-inches tall and covered with scattered, stiff hairs and dense glandular hairs; flower heads, solitary on stem with bluish-white rays and a yellow disk, prefers rocky, exposed mountain ridges. Note the basal rosette or narrow, linear leaves with coarse hairs along the margins.

FLOWERS: April–June. Single flower heads have 30–90 white to bluish petal-like ray flowers, each 1/4–5/8-inch long (6–16 mm), around a yellow disk. The phyllaries beneath the rays are sparsely to moderately hairy with coarse, stiff hairs with or without glands.

LEAVES: Basal and alternate on  stem. A dense basal rosette and 1–2 smaller stem leaves present at blooming. Basal leaves long, narrow, linear, 3/4–3 1/2-inches long (2–9 cm). Stem leaves reduced upward; surfaces  sparsely hairy, margins entire with prominent stiff hairs.

HABITAT: Sandy, rocky soils, ridges, slopes, barren rocky outcrops; ponderosa-Douglas fir, spruce-fir forests.

ELEVATION: 7,600–11,600 feet.

RANGE: CO, NM, WY.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Spreading Fleabane, E. divergens, has 10–18-inch tall, branching stems with nodding buds.

NM COUNTIES: Northwest half of NM in mid- to high-elevation habitats: Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Socorro, Taos, Torrance.