Like some other Ambrosia, the male and female flower heads are clustered separately on the inflorescence.

[1] Otherwise, the plant grows in playa lakes and other seasonally wet habitat types.

This bursage is adapted to the disturbance created by the seasonal cycle in this part of the shortgrass prairie vegetation.

Fewer populations occur in this good quality habitat than on roadsides and in ditches.

[5] This species is threatened by the development of land for housing and agriculture, which consumes terrain with playa lakes and other appropriate native habitat.