Pyrrocoma lanulosa Greene, Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 16. 1909; Haplopappus hirtus A. Gray subsp. lanulosus (Greene) H. M. Hall; H. hirtus var. lanulosus (Greene) M. Peck

Plants 15–30 cm. Stems villous or tomentose, ± woolly, sparsely glandular-stipitate. Leaves: basal blades lanceolate, 50–100(–150) × 8–15(–40) mm, margins coarsely serrate, faces softly villous, tomentose, stipitate-glandular. Heads 1–4. Involucres 8–10 × 12–15 mm. Phyllaries appressed, unequal, bases chartaceous, apices green.

Flowering Jun–Aug. Dry meadows, pine forests, brushy slopes; 1600–2200 m; Calif., Idaho, Oreg., Utah.

Variety lanulosa is recognized by its woolly pubescence and unequal phyllaries.