Corona segments 4–6 mm, apex usually rounded, opening extending from apex to base more than halfway, often more than three-quarters.

Flowering (Feb–)Mar–Jul­(–Aug); fruiting (Apr–)May–Aug(–Sep). Slopes, flats, ridge tops, canyons, arroyos, bajadas, granite, volcanic substrates, rhyolite, limestone, rocky, clay, and sandy soils, pinyon, oak, juniper, and oak-juniper woodlands, pine and mixed-conifer forests, shrublands, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, riparian woods, non-native grasslands; 300–2300 m; Calif.

Subspecies californica ranges south from Kern and San Bernardino counties.