This Utah native is a broad-leafed evergreen small to medium shrub, growing 3 to 5 feet tall and wide, though may reach 10 or more feet. Leaves are small, leathery and shiny, and dark green. Flowers are potentilla-like, and creamy white to yellow and appear April thru June. Flowers are followed by little fruits with silvery tails, enjoyed by winter songbirds. The bark is green to reddish-brown when young, becoming black, scaly, and shreddy in age. A good foundation or shrub border plant. Tolerants drought and some shade.
Grow in full to part sun, in well drained soils. Typically found in rocky, limestone soils with Utah juniper, pinion pine, big sage, and gambel oak.