Low tufted growth habit. Early flowering, beginning early May. Flowers with white ray florets and yellow disks, flower heads to 1 cm in diameter. Many flowers with only a few white ray florets. Scapes leafless, pubescent, the plants we observed had scapes rising to 4 cm tall. Foliage densely pubescent, grey green in colour. Leaves twice divided into 3 linear leaflets. Leaves to 9 mm long including petiole, entire leaf to 8 mm wide.

Uncommon, listed as an S3 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre. Habitat is hillsides, badlands, gravelly ridges on Saskatchewan's southern prairie.

Height is listed in Budd's Flora from 2 to 15 cm.

This plant might be confused with another low-growing, early flowering Fleabane, Erigeron radicatus. However that plant's basal leaves are not dissected into 2 or 3 lobes.

Above photos taken May 7th, Buffalo Grass Eco Reserve, 200 km south east of Regina, and May 19th in the Cypress Hills, 450 km south west of our home in Regina, SK.