Pyrrocoma sessiliflora Greene, Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 11. 1909; Haplopappus racemosus (Nuttall) Torrey subsp. sessiliflorus (Greene) H. M. Hall; H. racemosus var. sessiliflorus (Greene) S. L. Welsh

Plants 20–60 cm. Stems glabrous, glaucous. Leaves: basal blades linear-oblanceolate, 50–200 × 4–28 mm, thick, succulent, margins remotely and obscurely denticulate, glabrous, glaucous. Heads sessile or nearly so, crowded, in glomerate-spiciform arrays. Involucres obconic, 5–8 × 5–7 mm. Phyllaries: bases pale (chartaceous), margins ciliate, apices recurved, green, faces glabrous. Cypsela faces densely sericeous to glabrate. 2n = 12.

Flowering Jul–Oct. Alkaline flats, saline meadows and marshes; 300–2200 m; Calif., Nev., Utah.