[7] The plant bears attractive neatly rounded heads of small, bright golden flowers.

The individual flowers have no petals; rather, they are composed of yellow bracts forming a trumpet-shaped calyx about the stamens.

The plant grows in succulent mats on sand or other coastal substrate.

These roots are edible, traditionally eaten by the Chinookan peoples.

[3] This plant is seen exhibiting psammophory, a method by which plants save themselves from herbivores by attracting sand to their body making them difficult to be eaten.