The 1–5-inch long, hairy, leafy stems branch from the base and can be prostrate and spreading, or erect. Note the white daisy-like flowers on short stems (peduncles) and the short, flat-lying hairs on the stems and leaves.

FLOWERS: April–June. Flower heads have 12–30 white to pinkish petal-like ray flowers, each 3/16–5/16-inch long (5–8 mm); disk yellow with hair-like pappus bristles much shorter than the disk florets. The phyllaries beneath the rays are oval with pointed tips, and arranged in 3–4 rows; outer phyllaries shorter than the inner, edges papery and toothed; surfaces covered with short, flat-laying hairs, or hairless.

LEAVES: Alternate, crowded on stems. Blades spatula-shaped to narrow-oval with tapering base and tip, to 1 1/4-inch long (3 cm); surfaces covered with flat-lying hairs, margins entire.

HABITAT: Dry sandy soils; desert grasslands and scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands.

ELEVATION: 3,800–7,700 feet.

RANGE: AZ, CO, NM, TX, UT, WY.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Smooth Townsend Daisy, T. formosa, widespread in the mountains of southern 1/2 of NM, has hairless leaves. Plains Dozedaisy, Aphanostephus ramosissimus, in much the same range, has narrow, hairy phyllaries all about the same length.

NM COUNTIES: Widespread in the western 1/2 of NM in low- to mid-elevation arid habitats: Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Dona Ana, Grant, Lincoln,  Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Valencia.