[1] It grows below 1,900 metres (6,200 ft), in dry inland chaparral, oak woodlands, the Colorado Desert chaparral ecotone, and Yellow pine forest habitats.

[2] Leptosiphon lemmonii is a small, hairy, glandular annual herb producing a thin stem no more than about 15 centimeters tall.

The leaves are divided into needle-like linear lobes, each a few millimeters in length.

[2] The inflorescence is an array of a few small flowers accompanied by bracts shaped much like the leaves.

Each flower has lobes only 2 or 3 millimeters long, usually white or cream in color darkening to yellow and orange in the throat, sometimes with maroon areas as well.