Underside gray-green with sinuous row of white dots on hindwing. Males perch to watch for females in depressions or gulch bottoms.
Females lay eggs singly on host plant leaves.
Caterpillars eat leaves, although some prefer flowers and young fruits. Sagebrush scrub, pinyon-juniper woodland. Great Basin and arid inter-mountain West from northern Nevada and eastern California east to southern Utah and western Colorado. Subspecies interrupta Austin in Nevada may be in greater need of conservation. OR very rare or local throughout its range or found locally in a restricted range .