It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the Pecho Hills southwest of San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo County, California.

It is a plant of the chaparral and coastal coniferous forest.

Its smaller branches are woolly with long white bristles.

The dense foliage of leaves are oval-shaped, smooth, toothed, or jagged along the edges, and overlapping.

The inflorescence is a cluster of cone-shaped manzanita flowers, each about 7 millimeters long.