Pedicels usually 2–8 cm in flower; involucellar bractlets 7–10(–15) mm. Flowers bisexual; calyx 10–14 mm, lobes 8–11 × 2.5–4 mm; petals mauve, 15–25 mm, exceeding calyx. Mericarps 14–22. 2n = 20.

Flowering late winter–spring. Valleys, foothills; 30–1500 m; Calif.

Subspecies parryi occurs in the South Coast Ranges through the northern portions of the Transverse Ranges to the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada.