Greeneocharis circumscissa is a species of flowering plant in the borage family,[2] known by the common name cushion cryptantha.

It is native to western North America from Washington to Baja California to Colorado and it is also found in Argentina.

[3] It grows in sandy or gravelly types of habitat, from mountains to desert, below 9,500 m (31,200 ft) above sea level.

[4] This is an annual herb producing a short, bristly, multi-branched stem tangled into a mat no more than 10 centimeters tall.

The leaves are up to 1.5 centimeters long, linear to widely lance-shaped, and densely hairy to bristly.