Plants, prostrate or mound-forming, 0.5-1 m; burl absent . Leaf blades bright green, shiny. 2n = 52. Flowering late spring-early summer. Montane chaparral and forest openings; 1500- 2400 m; Calif. Subspecies parryana occurs in the Transverse Range of southern California from Ventura to San Bernardino counties.