Diplopappus incanus Lindley, Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 20: plate 1693. 1834; Dieteria incana (Lindley) Torrey & A. Gray; Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray var. incana (Lindley) A. Gray; M. incana (Lindley) Greene

Annuals, biennials, or short-lived perennials. Stems usually 1, stiffly erect, canescent, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular; branches widely divaricate, straight, stiff. Mid leaf blades linear-lanceolate to linear. Peduncles equaling or longer than involucres. Involucres broadly turbinate, 6–10(–12) mm. Phyllaries in 5–10 series, usually reflexed, apices usually canescent, stipitate-glandular. Ray florets pistillate, fertile. Cypselae sparsely to moderately appressed-hairy.

Flowering Jun–Oct. Grasslands, sagebrush scrublands, usually in sandy or alluvial soils along streams; 300–1500 m; B.C.; Idaho, Oreg., Wash.