[3] It is native primarily to the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau regions of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and northern Nevada (Elko County), where it is a member of the sagebrush scrub plant community.

[4] Antennaria flagellaris is a petite perennial herb forming a thin patch on the ground no more than 2 centimeters high.

It grows from a slender caudex and spreads via thin, wiry, cobwebby stolons.

The woolly grayish leaves are one to two centimeters long and generally lance-shaped.

The tiny inflorescence holds a single flower head less than a centimeter wide.